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It’s been my experience that when one says she or he is overwhelmed then the manager will eventually doubt their abilities. Never ends well.
It's your job as a manager to identify the signs of burnout. It's not the employee's job to communicate them to the manager.
That being said, employees do need to set realistic goals when estimating when something will be done.
I mostly agree, though some employees go out of their way to hide their burnout because they’re worried about getting judged (which may or may not happen depending on other factors)
Are you sure that your teammate quit because they were overwhelmed? In my experience, high performers get burned out by boredom before anything else, though we’re also pretty good about not overloading people with work
Yeah I don't think most managers are really open to this kind of emotional appeal without eventually losing trust in people. I think that employees will be far more successful if they can prove through data that they have too much work on their plates, and make an appeal to logic that they need to extra hands or to reduce workload in some other way.
It's difficult to recognize all the time, but if you can form some type of relationship with your team, you may find it easier to recognize if someone is "off". They also my find it easier to approach you, but you can't always be on point, no matter how hard you try.