The balance between what is asked of someone and the time, resources and support they have. Among managers, workload rose visibly in 2026 because of bigger teams and more hands-on work on top of managing.
The share of Dutch employees with burnout symptoms rose for the second year running, to 21 per cent in 2025 against 13 per cent in 2015. Women (23.5 per cent) and employees aged 25 to 34 (28 per cent) score highest. Worldwide, Gallup meanwhile measures the lowest engagement since 2020.
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Worldwide, manager engagement is falling faster than that of their employees, while organisations cut management layers and hand more to the managers who remain. Gallup identifies this fall as the main cause of the global dip in engagement.
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Half of Dutch school leaders experience a lot of work stress, and in secondary education almost twice as often as in 2018. One in three has too little time for instructional leadership, while the Inspectorate singles out the school leader as the lever for better education quality.
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Over six in ten Dutch teachers want a period of calm before the next round of innovation, more than in most other TALIS countries. ROA and the Inspectorate blame an accumulation of rules and temporary schemes, which leaves schools unable to implement new plans properly.
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