Your sharpest people are often the most depleted.
The picture, in numbers
Burnout has moved from the margins to the centre of Canadian work. In 2025:
Credit: Mental Health Research Canada and Canada Life, 2025 (39 percent burnout; up to 28,500 dollars per affected employee per year; 3.4 million dollars per year for a 500-person firm; prevention saves about 3,400 dollars per employee). Robert Half, 2025 (47 percent of professionals burnt out, 31 percent more than the prior year).
39%
of Canadian employees reported feeling burnt out.
3.4 million / year
lost productivity and salary cost for a 500-person company.
close to 50%
of professionals specifically say they’re burnt out.
roughly 1/3
say it's getting worse.
Credit: Mental Health Research Canada and Canada Life, 2025 (39 percent burnout; up to 28,500 dollars per affected employee per year; 3.4 million dollars per year for a 500-person firm; prevention saves about 3,400 dollars per employee). Robert Half, 2025 (47 percent of professionals burnt out, 31 percent more than the prior year).
What the cost number leaves out.
The number that should worry a leadership team isn't the headcount on stress leave. It's what chronic stress does to judgment. When the nervous system is stuck in fight-or-flight, thinking narrows, reactivity climbs, sleep degrades and decision quality drops, in exactly the people whose decisions carry the most weight.
You can't out-discipline a depleted nervous system. You can help it recover, and that's a capability a high-performing team can build.
Recovery is how you protect peak decision-making.
The leaders who hold their edge over a long, hard quarter aren't the ones who push hardest.
They're the ones who recover deliberately between the pushes.
Leela Longevity & Wellbeing can help your team or high performers get the recovery side of their physiology working again. We stabilize high-capacity people before burnout becomes expensive.
It’s complementary to medical care,
never a substitute for it.
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