Workplaces where the goals were vague and projects were never completed tended to have more burned-out workers.54 In other words, when work seems like an endless, pointless slog, and workers have no sense of being recognized for all that they do, burnout is far more common.
Have you ever had one of those work "goals" that has no way of being actually accomplished? Because I have and they SUCK! The goal is like "Continue doing this thing that's part of your job description" and like... yes... I will continue to do the thing that my job says I'm supposed to do... but since the goal is to CONTINUE something, there's no end to it. There's no completion, no check-off. Nothing except a never-ending continuation. It was demoralizing in the extreme.
