Accounting Burnout: Briggs' 3.3 Rule Course Targets Busy-Season Turnover
Nov 14, 2026
The Real John Briggs highlights the 3.3 Rule and Take Breaks, Work Better course, offering accounting firm leaders practical ways to build recovery into busy season and address staff burnout and post-season turnover.
Draper, United States, November 14, 2026 /PressCable/ -- The Real John Briggs is highlighting the 3.3 Rule and the Take Breaks, Work Better course as structured approaches accounting firm leaders can use to build recovery into busy season. The message speaks directly to firm owners and managing partners who decide how workload gets distributed and who carry the responsibility for retaining staff once deadlines pass.
For more details, visit https://takebreaksworkbetter.com/course/
The timing follows a recurring pattern in the profession: a stretch of months where workloads rise, personal time disappears, and staff are expected to maintain accuracy while running on depleted energy. Research from the Center for Accounting Transformation found that 68% of respondents reported some level of burnout among accounting staff, and only 47% believed their teams carried reasonable workloads, a gap that points to a structural problem rather than a collection of individual struggles.
Treating burnout as a personal failing overlooks how widespread it appears to be across firms, roles, and regions. Recovery can instead be built directly into how work gets designed, through decisions about workload distribution, workflow structure, planned time away, and leaders who model realistic boundaries for their teams. Framed this way, addressing burnout becomes a leadership task rather than something staff are left to manage alone during their off hours.
The 3.3 Rule and the Take Breaks, Work Better course offer firm leaders specific practices for applying that thinking during demanding stretches of the calendar, rather than general advice about self-care, so managing partners have concrete methods they can use as teams work through tax season and other peak periods.
Some firms have already taken structural steps in this direction. Industry reporting describes one firm setting a 55-hour weekly workweek goal and ending mandatory Saturday office hours during tax season, while another capped weekly hours at 54 and let staff choose between overtime pay or paid time off, suggesting that recovery-oriented scheduling is gaining traction as a standard operating practice rather than a fringe idea.
The stakes for firms that delay action remain significant. The same research found that more than half of firms report ongoing turnover even among teams with high satisfaction and a strong sense of belonging, meaning people often leave not because they dislike the work but because the pace becomes unsustainable. The 3.3 Rule and the Take Breaks, Work Better course are offered as tools firms can use to help protect their people and sustain performance through the busy seasons ahead.
Firm leaders looking to prepare for the next cycle before it arrives can learn more about John Briggs' work at https://therealjohnbriggs.com/
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