ABSTRACT
COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges to health care worker well-being, which was fragile even before the pandemic's arrival. This chapter discusses how COVID-19's impact on health care worker well-being has differed across time, medical specialty, job roles, geography, and other factors. The areas of worklife model for job burnout identifies six dimensions of work experience that predict burnout if sub-optimally manifested in the workplace: workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values. This chapter explores how differing contributions from each area of worklife category may explain observed differences in COVID-19 impact. This analysis informs approaches to anticipate, mitigate, and even prevent burnout in different pandemic-impacted settings in the present and future, incorporating pre-pandemic knowledge and new insights gleaned from this recent global crisis.
