NewsWire: 6/25/22
- According to a new poll, K-12 educators (mainly teachers) are the most likely to feel burned out at work. This group has always reported relatively high levels of burnout, but during the pandemic, the burnout gap between them and all other workers grew larger. (Gallup)
- NH: There has been a lot of news about how difficult certain jobs have become during the pandemic. Here comes a Gallup poll that looks explicitly at which industries have the highest burnout rates.
- The most burned-out employees are those in K-12 education. 44% report feeling “burned out at work” always or very often. That’s +14 percentage points higher than the share of all workers who say the same thing. And it marks an +8 percentage point rise since March 2020, before the pandemic began.
- Clearly, the stress of the pandemic and remote learning have left teachers both exhausted and frustrated. (See “Young School Kids Struggle with In-Person Learning.”) A February poll by the National Education Association found that 55% of educators plan to leave the field sooner than they had initially planned.
- So who else is feeling the pressure? College and university workers report the second-largest share of burnout (35%). This is followed by those working in professional services, a broad category that includes professions like accounting and architecture (33%); government/public policy (33%); retail (32%); and healthcare (31%).
- Those working in finance are the least likely to report burnout (21%). Why? I suspect it's because they were mostly able to work at home while the markets soared. What's not to like about that?
Did You Know?
- Keep Selfies Weird. Last month, we introduced readers to BeReal (see “Is BeReal the New TikTok?”), a photo-sharing app where the images are meant to be spontaneous and silly. It’s part of a larger crop of apps aimed at young people who are craving more authenticity in their social media, including Poparazzi, HalloApp, and Yubo. All of these apps go hand-in-hand with another trend that’s rising among teens and young adults: the 0.5 selfie. According to The New York Times, the 0.5 selfie is so named because it’s achieved by selecting 0.5x on a smartphone camera, which toggles the ultra-wide lens on newer phones. The resulting photos are typically not flattering: People’s features appear distorted, limbs look extra-long, and eyes bug out. What’s more, the wide-angle lens is only built into the back cameras of phones, so those posing for 0.5 selfies can’t see themselves until they’ve taken the photograph. But friends are happy to share them anyway.
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