Dear colleagues:
The subject line above is the title of the most recent post on the Solving Task Saturation for Museum Workers blog.
Your blogger's answer to the title's question is No.
I argue that the preponderance of solutions being proposed to address increasing levels of burnout in museum workplaces ignore the need to FIX the CAUSES of the problem rather than just expecting its victims to take sole responsibility for 'self-care' of their own symptoms of stress, burnout . . . etc.
A bolded emphasis quotation from this post at https://solvetasksaturation.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/is-self-care-sufficient-to-solve-poor-quality-of-working-lives-in-museums/ reads:
. . . ounces of systemic prevention are worth many pounds of additional symptom 'self-care' cure responsibilities for individual workers who have little power to fix the primary causes of burnout on their own.
Thanks for thinking about this.
Respectfully yours
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Paul C.Thistle
Director/Curator (retired)
Stratford, Ontario
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