The Social Side of Burnout | Eric Quintane | TEDxESMTBerlin

This talk explores how our relationships at work—meant to support us—can sometimes become sources of burnout and exhaustion. Drawing on large-scale research projects across industries, Eric presents four relational traps hidden in our social networks: the Normative Cage, Emotional Contagion, Uncontrollable Interdependencies, and Excessive Demands. This talk invites us to rethink how we connect, collaborate, and care for ourselves at work. Eric Quintane is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior (with tenure) at ESMT. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Melbourne in Australia and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne.