ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to analyse the factors that cause employees to experience burnout at work which includes workload on burnout with work stress as a mediating variable. Burnout is an important thing that must be considered by government agencies in managing human resources. The population in this study were employees of the Economic and Development Administration Assistant with a sample of 100 respondents. This type of research is quantitative with the analysis method used is PLS-SEM with the help of the SmartPLS 4 programme in data processing. The results showed that workload has a positive and significant effect on burnout,workload has a positive and significant effect on work stress, work stress has a positive and significant effect on burnout, work stress has a positive and significant effect on workload through burnout. High workload can affectemployeesregarding work, which in turn increases the risk of burnout. In addition, high workload also contributesto increased work stress, which also plays a role in increasing the risk of burnout.
KEYWORDS : Workload, Burnout, Work Stress.