Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Essen, language: English, abstract: Although a day has 24 hours, it seems impossible for many people to perform the number of tasks they are expected to each day. A lot of people in our society are over-worked. They suffer from stress and hectic in ther daily life and the burn out syndrome has become a common condition. According to an article of the focus medicines bargain that 20% - 30% of all working people suffer from burn out syndrome at least once a lifetime. Another statistic shows that in the year 2010 24.05 million out of 64.82 million people felt they did not have enough time.