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Sammanfattning: This study aims to understand the relationship between work engagement and the dark side of work engagement. The dark side includes stress and burnout, which are the points of focus of this study. The purpose of this study is to examine what a company can do in order to prevent the negative effects of work engagement. To understand the relationship between work engagement and stress/burnout, this study is built on the job-demand resource model.   The data collection was done by interviewing seven individuals. The results showed that the respondents were engaged in their work. On the other hand, the data also showed that even though the interviewees said that they were engaged in their work, they also experienced stress and burnout. Furthermore, the answer to what the company can to in order to prevent stress and burnout was diffuse. The majority believed that there is not much the company can do to prevent such situation and that it is your own responsibility to be able to handle stress at work.   One difficulty this study faced was that stress and burnout is to many people a personal subject that people are not comfortable speaking openly about. Therefore, it was often hard to get detailed answers.