You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hu. Having a good relationship with your work is crucial, and yet our jobs are often a source of burnout and exhaustion.

A toxic work environment will typically cause burnout.

That's Eric Quintain, an organizational behavior researcher based in Melbourne.

He draws on lessons learned from a widespread research project across industries that

looks into the hidden traps that exist in our jobs.

Now, what you need to realize is that these traps are not easy to identify.

You can see that you have a bad boss.

You can see that you have difficult co-workers,

but it's not easy to identify if you are part of those traps.

In this talk, he shares what he's learned,

how we can break free to better connect,

collaborate, and care for ourselves in the workplace.

We'll dive into this talk right after a break.

And now our TED Talk of the Day.

I'm a professor of organizational behavior.

And as my students very well know, it means that I study people in organizations.

Now, I study them with a very specific perspective.

I focus on their relationships.

I focus on networks.

The pattern of relationships people build with each other inside organizations.

And when we do that, we have a different image of organizations that start to appear in front of our eyes.

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