Between January 2021 and September 2021, participants voluntarily completed an electronic version of the Sydney Burnout Measure (SBM), available at https://burnoutindex.yerbo.co. This is a free access, self-administered survey, with items selected from globally validated and standardized questionnaires. The survey also measures turnover intention and eNPS, which allows us to draw associations between the levels of burnout and the intention to leave the current company and the likelihood of promoting your company as a good place to work.

The sample comprises 32644 workers (47% female, 53% male) from the Information Technology (IT) sector, living in Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States.

No atypical cases were identified (score z ± 3). However, the cases with homogeneous responses (for example responses "1" in the study variables, 495 cases) or missing data in the study variables were eliminated. In the case of the “age generation” variable, those cases with responses under 18 years of age (516 cases) and over 80 years of age (133 cases) were eliminated. The final sample was N = 31,500. The data collected presented a normal distribution in all studied variables (less than ± 1.5 for Kurtosis and Asymmetry).

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