Raise your hand if this sounds familiar. You are a talented employee, you do good work and lots of it but you are getting burnt out to the point you are considering if you want to stay on the job or move on.

Employers beware. In the latest issue of The Harvard Business Review, researchers maintain that a steady increase in “collaborative work” is undermining organizations' performance and costing companies some of their best workers.

In a bit of an oxymoron, researchers call this a "success syndrome" and explain that the more valuable an employee is, the more demands get placed on them. Again, raise your hand….

In the past 10 years there's been a "phenomenal explosion in collaborative intensity" that researchers say is tied to technological innovations like email and social media which make it easy for coworkers to connect with each other. Also contributing are systems that require employees to be responsible to and receive assignments from at least two managers.  I think even the Bible mentions the difficulty of trying to serve two masters.

The bottom line:  Workers are being overburdened to the point of exhaustion and in some cases are being forced out because they were in essence, too good at their job.

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Study authors say that bosses and team leaders need to be aware of this issue, and give employees permission to "say no" to some requests. (Yahoo)

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