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[TOP STORY] Early Burnout: Why South African workers are exhausted by June

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Penquin HR director Annemie Burger suggests typical ‘driven’ people tend to just keep on going, and you sometimes want to take their laptop and lock it away and tell them, ‘You need time for yourself’.

12 Jun 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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