Education, work, finance & impact
Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It
By Erin L. Kelly, MIT Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies, and Phyllis Moen
Princeton University Press · 2020
Years of research shows how organizational change and work redesign strategies can address burnout, overload, and turnover - especially timely as many professionals in the past year have been asked to do more with less in extremely challenging circumstances.
From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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