Employee burnout: Australia experiencing ‘productivity issue’

 

Microsoft ANZ Managing Director Steven Worrall says Australia has a “productivity issue” in its workforce.

Mr Worrall joined Sky News Business Editor Edward Boyd to discuss employee burnout. “The burnout that we are seeing in the survey that we’ve completed I think goes to the heart of how do we think about productivity in our businesses and mental health, and what we see in our workplace we think is a really important lever that we should be thinking about,” Mr Worrall said. “We know from 1950 to 2010 ... our productivity has been at around 1.8 per cent as a nation. “Since 2010 through to 2020, that’s dropped to about 1.1 per cent.”