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Burnout is becoming increasingly common among leaders and employees, but wellbeing advice is adding to rather than solving the problem, a high-performance specialist says.

"We want good balance, health and wellbeing, but stay stuck frantically pedalling our hamster wheel and juggling multiple balls in the air," says Fleur Heazlewood.

"In our race for more, we are reducing ourselves to less. And, for many of us, our health and wellbeing is the 'less', and the 'more' is an endless cycle of busyness, pursuit and stress."

She notes that in light of the pandemic, employers have increased the focus on wellbeing, offering a plethora of information and activities across numerous platforms, however in some cases employees are "drowning in a sea of information pollution on wellbeing", which is in turn driving a sense of overwhelm...