Before the plan of strategy can be worked out, an overview is needed:

• How widespread is burn-out in the company?
• how many employees have been/is suffering from burn-out, or have stress related sickness
• is burn-out and stress related sufferings more common in some parts of the company than others?
• How does the company produce burn-out? Identify organizational and task related factors that lead to stress and burn-out

Even if none of the employees report burn-out or stress, it can nevertheless exist in the company. Burn-out can be hidden under other sufferings, diseases or reasons when employees take out sick leaves. Employees may refrain from reporting stress because they think that everyone else in the department feels the same - being tired or fatigued is so natural for them that they do not occur to complain. Low sick leaves can due to the fact that the employees force themselves to go to work even if they are sick - the result may be burn-out or other sufferings/diseases.

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