Office And Field Workers Have The Same Potential Burnout, This Is How To Solve It

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JAKARTA - Office workers and field workers both have the potential to experience burnout or physical, mental, and emotional fatigue at work. The public still thinks that working indoors is not as tired as working in the field which relies on physical energy. In fact, said Nirmala, this assumption is wrong.

It's not seen where the (location) is. Burnout can happen to any work. Including, for example, journalists, it's very possible. Even though you could say journalist work can be in the room or can be in the field," said an adult Clinical Psychologist, Nirmala Ika Kusumaningrum, M.Psi., quoted from ANTARA, Monday, September 26.

Clinical psychologist who graduated from the University of Indonesia (UI) Muthmainah Mufidah, M.Psi., Psychologists also said that both office and field workers both drained energy.

Working with thoughts and physically can be as heavy as possible. Manpower that is exhausting from the mind can have an impact on our physical, feelings, and actions. So it's natural that there is physical fatigue even though you feel that your work is not moving much or indoors," said Mufidah.

Meanwhile, Nirmala said that the level of fatigue cannot be seen only from the types and locations of work, but also the environment that forms a work culture. For example, office workers in urban areas cannot be separated from relationships with superiors and co-workers who may be able to drain energy, especially if the work culture is more inclined to prioritize competition.

Nirmala highlighted the importance of building a healthy work culture where alignment should be prioritized, not competition. That way, mutual respect and openness of expression can be formed among workers.

"Precise. Support each other and respect each other, including when the job is like this, yes, he gets paid like this. Not if A who works is paid more, if person B doesn't. That means he doesn't respect it anymore," he said.

When workers experience 'burnout', it does not only have an impact on the individual concerned but also has an impact on social relations, including relationships with families who incidentally do not have direct relationships with work.

Social relaxation with people will affect, the content is sensitive or angry. Or sometimes they don't even realize it, it can also be affected by other people who have nothing to do with it, like family at home, right? It has nothing to do with work," said Nirmala.

Furthermore, Mufidah said 'burnout' has a lot of impact and can spread to various areas in one's life.

In addition to influencing social relations, the impact on the individual concerned includes excessive negative feelings and thoughts (intensity and frequent), loss of interest in doing various things, loss of self-developing drive, doubt or view oneself negatively, feeling more sensitive or difficult to manage emotions, physical health problems, to mental health disorders.