Burnout is not burnout after all? Finnish mental health specialist calls out those romanticising burnout

The average person spends a third of their life at work. Working can make us happy as well as bring us down. But what happens when the negative outweighs the positive? Here to discuss the matter is Professor Jari Hakanen of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

For more than 20 years, Professor Jari Hakanen has studied Finnish working life from the perspective of well-being at work. He is a Research Professor in the field of modern work and leadership at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. Hakanen’s areas of practice include work and development of work organisation, and he specialises in positive psychology, work and family, well-being at work, work adjustment and workplace burnout.