Burnout, an escalating issue stemming from persistent job stress, significantly impairs employee well-being and workplace productivity. This Modern Health Playbook presents an in-depth and actionable framework to combat this challenge. It advocates a comprehensive strategy that synergizes organizational initiatives and individual coping mechanisms to effectively tackle burnout at its core. 

The strategies and interventions outlined in this playbook are grounded in robust, widely-recognized research. Each intervention is categorized as targeting either organizational structures or individual behaviors, allowing a tailored approach that addresses needs at all levels. 

Organizational interventions impact the environment, culture, or work process. Examples include managing workload, creating a positive work culture, ensuring psychological safety, tying work to purpose, and offering workplace flexibility. 

Individual-level interventions modify the behavior or mindset of employees. They include practices like mindfulness, stress reduction, resilience training, social connection, time in nature, gratitude, digital detox, coaching, and counseling. 

The Playbook’s Comprehensive Guides propose practical models demonstrating how interventions can be integrated in a customizable way based on role:

• Senior leaders, including HR and employee benefit directors;
• Team leaders/managers;
• Individual employees;
• Leaders/managers of deskless workers.