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A quarter of teaching staff are psychologically tired

Almost a quarter (24 percent) of education staff feel psychologically fatigued several times a month or more. This puts education in the top three. The emotional involvement of teaching staff is also the highest of all employees in the Netherlands.

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Psychologically tired

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This is evident from the latest figures from the National Survey on Working Conditions (NEA) of TNO and CBS.

Little autonomy

NEA is a major survey among employees from all sectors in the Netherlands. TNO published in mid-May the latest figures for the year 2022. In an analysis writes CBS that employees who have little autonomy*The Education magazine is conducting a study into autonomy. How much autonomy do you experience? Go to the questionnaire and stay informed about our publications.  experienced and have a high workload suffer from 'work-related psychological fatigue complaints' much more often than other employees. The CBS calls education as one of the sectors where this combination is common, in addition to the hospitality industry and care. 'A job with high job demands and little autonomy is also referred to as stressful work', according to the CBS researchers.

Statistics Netherlands cites education as one of the sectors where there is little autonomy and high work pressure

Empty

Psychological fatigue symptoms manifest themselves in different ways. For example, an empty feeling at the end of the working day, or being tired when you get up and emotional exhaustion. At 41,8 percent, education workers are the most likely of all workers to report feeling “emotionally drained” at the end of a workday – some daily, some several times a month. A quarter of teaching staff feel tired in the morning when confronted with work - this percentage is only higher in the information and communication sectors. When asked by TNO whether employees experience 'a lot of work', education also stands out with 50,7 percent. Slightly more than half experience this often or always. Healthcare is in second place, where 47 percent experience this.

41,8 percent of education employees report feeling 'emotionally drained' several times a month to daily at the end of the working day

Emotional exhaustion is also one of the manifestations of fatigue. In education, just over a quarter of employees report experiencing emotional exhaustion. This is also higher than the average in the Netherlands, where one in five employees feel this way.

Measures

Many people in education therefore want more measures to relieve the workload; 44 percent indicate this. They find the current measures insufficient. Another almost 12 percent think measures are necessary because they believe they have not yet been taken. 34,3 percent indicate that the current measures are sufficient.

Most satisfied

A positive point for education is the score of 82 percent for job satisfaction. Employees then checked that they are satisfied or very satisfied. If you just look at the professional group of teachers indicates that 81,8 percent are satisfied. 'They score above average,' says CBS researcher Tanja Traag. The score for satisfaction with working conditions is 'average', according to Traag. 75,9 percent of teachers say they are satisfied. Traag explains in an e-mail why on the one hand the workload and emotional burden in education is so high, but on the other hand the satisfaction. "The fact that these two diverge so much is probably because the question of job satisfaction is very general. Respondents in those specific questions probably weigh the positives of their work very strongly, and much less the lesser sides such as high work pressure and emotional burden. We see something similar in healthcare."

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