Seeman states that alienation is identified by five alternative meanings: powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, isolation, and self-estrangement.
[5] Ritualists continue to subscribe to the means, but they have rejected the overall goal; this makes them feel alienated from their work causing self-estrangement.
Arlie Russell Hochschild defined emotional labor and how it can make you feel estranged from yourself.
This type of labor requires you to be in a good state of mind and feeling while in the work environment despite any problems you may be going through.
Self-estrangement may provoke different forms of psychic distress that potentially evoke symptoms of burnout, or manifestations of stress that ruin work life.
[3] Self-estrangement and lack of meaning in one's work provokes a different form of psychic distress that evokes symptoms of burnout.
[2] This means that the person loses interest in why they are working, which can decrease their production and cause them to alienate themselves from other workers as well.