One in four Romanian employees was in a psychological risk and burnout zone in 2025, according to the Romanian Employee Well-being Index, conducted by RoCoach and Novel Research on a national sample of 1,000 employees from urban areas.
Although more than 41% of Romanian employees managed to maintain a reasonable level of balance at work, one in four was in a psychological risk and burnout zone, while only 30% truly indicated a high state of satisfaction, characterised by healthy relationships, autonomy, clarity and perception of fairness at work.
The Romanian Employee Well-being Index shows a score of 70.3 points out of 100 in 2025, which indicates moderate security, but also increased vulnerability to organisational shocks such as leadership changes, operational pressures or economic instability and places Romania in a "moderate security" zone.
In 2025, men recorded higher job satisfaction. 72.1% indicated a good and very good state, with the 18-29 age group being the most satisfied. The areas with the highest degree of job satisfaction in 2025 were trade/sales (76.4%), banking and healthcare (73.8% each) and NGOs (66.6%). At the opposite end of the scale, employees in the IT&C and public administration fields saw the lowest levels of satisfaction.
The report shows that well-being is not perceived by employees as a benefit or bonus, but as a result of the way the company they work for is organised and run. Differences in well-being are not random or strictly individual, but follow clear structural lines: position in the hierarchy, seniority, field of activity and the formal and informal rules of the organisation.
At the same time, the research shows that as employees' seniority in the organisation increases, their well-being decreases from "excellent" to "good", accompanied by an increase in the area of manageable but persistent tensions. Organisations manage to transform initial enthusiasm into stability, but they do not always manage to maintain energy and meaning in the long term.
According to the Employee Wellbeing Index, in 2025 the main sources of burnout were high workload (23.3%), constant deadline pressure (19.6%), lack of balance between personal and professional life (16.4%) and absence of feedback (9.1%). At the same time, in almost all the segments analysed, the direct boss appears as a determining factor of employee well-being (19.3%).
The Employee Wellbeing Index 2025 is a synthetic tool developed by RoCoach and Novel Research to measure the real quality of the work experience of Romanian employees in 2025. It is built on five fundamental dimensions of organisational life: clarity, autonomy, recognition, equity and human relations. Each dimension is standardised on a scale of 0-100, and the final score reflects the overall well-being at work. The data were collected between November and December 2025, using the CAWI (Computer Assisted WEB Interviews) method, on a sample of one thousand employees from urban areas.
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