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The companies of the present world have the desire of recruiting and training skilled individuals who have the willingness to go far beyond the established role for enhancing performance. But, it is also a fact that while improving the performance of the organization, the work pressure as well as the work load gets increased. This leads to burnout in the organization, of efficient employees. In such a situation, the emotional intelligence of the individuals lends the employees a helping hand to cope up with such extra workloads. In this context, the current study aims to examine the effect of emotional intelligence of the employees on their burnout. The study is done among the employees of manufacturing sector in Chennai. The participants are selected through convenience sampling method and the sample size is 100. The data collection tool is a questionnaire and the tool used for analysis of the study is regression. The findings of the study reveal that emotional intelligence had a positive effect on burnout, which means burnout reduces in the presence of emotional intelligence.