Professional exhaustion, known as burnout, has become a recurring reality in Brazil, present both in informal conversations and in psychology, psychiatry, and occupational medicine offices. Specialists and data collected by the National Association of Occupational Medicine (Anamt), with information from the National Social Security Institute (INSS), confirm this trend.
Between 2023 and 2025, the number of work leave of absences due to problems related to the organization of the way of life — that is, exhaustion and its variants — went from 1,760 to 6,985, representing an increase of 296%. This data specifically refers to the group of people on leave of absence for a period exceeding 15 days.
The actual volume of cases may be even greater, since the research does not include people with shorter leave of absences or those who did not report their health condition to their employer. This suggests that the explosion of burnout-related leave of absences in Brazil may be underestimated in the official numbers.
