This is a critical Ted Talk. "Why do we give ourselves permission to rest when we have cancer but not when we're burned out?" Love this vulnerable and authentic talk by Jen Fisher and excited about how it is finally putting human sustainability on the priority list.
Amazing talk... this removes the shame of burnout and elevates it so that it is acknowledged and recognized. It is exhausting to deal with burnout and feeling invisible when crying for help. Thank you for being an agent of change, education and action!
"Why do we give ourselves permission to rest when we have cancer but not when we're burned out?" I love this call to reinvent and co-create our work environments to focus more on human sustainability. Thank you for sharing your personal story and for reminding us that we have an opportunity to shape the future of work.
What a powerful and important message! Jen, your authenticity and belief in the possibility of change is inspiring. The future of work will require all of us taking care of ourselves and each other!
Jen, this is an excellent TEDx talk! I love where you said “productivity doesn’t always = well-being” and that “if you have an employee struggling with burnout, you cannot expect them to take a week off and come back to the same environment with different results.”
Outstanding talk, Jen! Your story of cancer, your struggle with burnout, your humor, and your compassion makes this a powerful talk. Loved this line -- "Well-being isn't massages." It's so much more. The concept of REST is critical to our productivity. Thank you for sharing your journey with the world. (And Lenny Kravitz!)
Jen - thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your story and ideas. It's an inspiring message and talk...we don't have to quit to make things better!
Thank for sharing your inspirational story, Jen! Wellbeing is our future! Let's continue to move in this direction and let's hope more and more leaders join us!
What a powerful, heartfelt Talk, Jen! Thank you for so openly and honestly sharing your journey through burnout and overcoming cancer, and for pushing this conversation of [workplace] wellness forward. This is a compelling case for what the Future of Work can and should look like. Congratulations!!
You are such an inspiration to so many Jen! Thank you for sharing your story so vulnerably and so powerfully, and for the continuous reminders to take care of ourselves and our employees.
Jen Fisher's insights are a wake-up call for the modern workplace. Burnout isn't a badge of honor; it's a red flag that we're steering our ship towards an iceberg. It's high time we navigate towards a future where well-being is the captain of our work-life ship.
Thank you for being a coherent and credible advocate for wellbeing at work! I agree that we are at the point of re-inventing and co-creating the future of work. I think it is time for organizations to include emotional responsability as one of the 3 strategic pillars for sustainability, along with ecological responsability and social responsability.
Jen, I really appreciate you sharing your story and insights on burnout. I think it's so important to talk about this issue, especially in the workplace, where it's so prevalent. I was particularly struck by your story about how your experience helped you to reframe your perspective on burnout. I especially agree with your point that well-being is a systemic issue, and that it's going to require systemic solutions. I think we need to start by challenging the way work is designed, and to create more sustainable and flexible work environments. I'm also inspired by your call to action to all of us to take care of ourselves and to set boundaries. It's so important to remember that our well-being is our responsibility, and that we need to make sure that we're taking care of ourselves first. Thank you !!!
Thank you for sharing your story, your time and most of all teaching us through your strength of vulnerability. You are so inspiring! Making a difference on human lives is self fulfilling!
Lovely. But it will bever change. as long as human greed exisits the board and investors will always want more from its employees. It's human nature. Heck even people want more of this or that. The smart ones are the ones who realise that less is more. And priorities time with family and a handful of excellent friends.
Funny how workers have been expressing this for God knows how l9ng but when a smart, educated, higher up puts it in a TedTalk, suddenly it's like a new revelation.
It's not. Nobody is going to start treating their employees well including paying them what they're worth because of this. Her position at Deloitte is a joke. Sounds like nepotism or her buddy gave her a job to keep busy while the rest of the employees actually work and make the company money.
Add on top of that being underpaid and you have a real problem. Thats the problem with peolple like this in these executive roles. They say well-being is important but don't think fair and reasonable pay is part of burn out for people. We can talk about environment all day, but when you have high performers that are getting 80 cent raises, getting a vacation and all of your lunch breaks doesn't mean a thing. While the message is honest...her position at Deloitte sounds like something a friend of hers or a relative let her make up. Lol People like this get paid big bucks to play at work while everyone else actually makes the company momey and has actual responsibility for results. I worked at Deloitte once and it was toxic with people in supervisory roles that didn't deserve them simply because their boss didn't know how to do the job and couldn't be bothered to learn more to see the place was being run by a lazy petty opportunitst. Hopefully things have changed and the well-being focus has leaderhship seeing their toxic employees more clear.
