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The Maslach Burnout Inventory: How Christina Maslach Turned "Burnout" From a Buzzword Into a Measurable Condition
Before the 1980s, "burnout" was a word people used informally to describe feeling used up by their job — with no agreed definition and no way to measure it. One psychologist's interviews with exhau...
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