A eclosão da síndrome de Burnout na pandemia COVID-19 com o teletrabalho e as implicações da sua nova classificação jurídica

Abstract

With the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, there was a massive adoption of teleworking (homeoffice). Although that provided flexibility and convenience into working, it also brought an outbreak of the “Burnout Syndrome”, also known as the professional exhaustion syndrome, that it’s often associated with stressful work environments. In 2021, Burnout got a new classification by the World Health Organization, becoming recognized in Brazil in the list of occupational diseases. The present work seeks to analyze this new scenario and the legal consequences arising from this new framework. A method of legal-theoretical analysis was used, regarding the legislative changes arising from Provisional Measures. The deductive-logical method was also applied, as it started from the general idea of reclassifying Burnout, to the legaltheoretical analysis of the effects occoured because of change. The qualitative research here projected aimed to contribute to the debate about the new parameters of employer accountability, through critical and careful analysis, frim both the specialized bibliography and normative analyses.