I would hope that maybe people will become more aware of work conditions that lead to burnout. Harassment is not OK anymore, so are a lot of other negative behaviors, maybe people will become aware of the dangers of overworking.

It’s guidance for diagnosis. Doctors can already diagnose whatever they want. This is just a step toward agreement on what “burnout” means.

I'm in Quebec, so it can be different, but when my SO had a burnout, all the doctors we saw said that there was no diagnosis for "burnout" and they had to declare it as a clinical depression. I guess it's different here because the government insurance is involved, but that was an issue for us.

Maybe she did have a depression though, it was quite a bit of work just to get a work leave for her, we had to see so many doctors. We didn't push to further afterwards and now that she no longer work at the same place, she is much better.

> This is just a step toward agreement on what “burnout” means

Which is really important. Right now it seems to me like we classify many different things with vaguely similar symptoms as burnout.

Hopefully corporate incentives will be more aligned to prevent burnout. In many cases, the employer should be at fault when this happens.

Not sure about burnout, but similar announcements sure do trigger some companies: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190526000118