Force yourself to leave your job on time at least a few days a week and dont take any work home with you start slowly if you have to leave work on time one day a week and then increase it to two days make sure you spend the night relaxing rent a movie or read a good book. Employee burnout is kind of like a leaky faucet insidiously draining both employees and businesses job burnout leads employees to seek out new jobs and it can even put a damper on personal relationships that should be uplifting it can cost companies up to 190 billion a year on healthcare costs plus according to forbes companies could be losing up to 34 of every burned out employee . Burnout is not easy to come back from but it can be prevented even when stress is high if you know how it works. Reduce stress at work and prevent burnout a psychologist explains how february 7 2020 1014am est sarah tottle lancaster university author sarah tottle business psychologist lancaster . Burnout affects about 5 per cent to 7 per cent of the working population according to michael leiter professor of industrial and organisational psychology at deakin university by thea oconnor stress management and resilience training for employees are popular approaches to prevent burnout but they are only part of the solution