working theory:
a lot of “burnout” is just the result of prolonged exposure to environments you were never truly aligned with to start
working theory: a lot of “burnout” is just the result of prolonged exposure to environments you were never truly aligned with to start
Some companies have sought to alleviate the strain by offering sessions in mindfulness. But the problem with scheduling meditation as part of that working day is that it becomes yet another task at which you can succeed or fail. Those who can’t clear out their mind need to try harder – and the very exercises intended to ease anxiety can end up exac
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This X post by Emmett Shear (most famous for being CEO of Twitch) had a huge impact on how I think about burnout.
Emmett describes 3 main causes of burnout (paraphrased):
This X post by Emmett Shear (most famous for being CEO of Twitch) had a huge impact on how I think about burnout.
Emmett describes 3 main causes of burnout (paraphrased):
- Permanent On-call: Never having true time off, because work can always reach you (or in the case of very intense jobs, because the work never actually ends). I had always co
Stay SaaSy • Advice That I Can't Get Out of My Head
Dr. Maslach outlined some of the factors that research has found leads to burnout: * Excessive workloads * Lack of flexibility in schedule * Lack of worker autonomy * Destructive competition among co-workers * Getting shut out of opportunities * Loss of shared common meaning and purpose at work * Workers feeling they are not meaningful change agent... See more
The Beautiful Truth • Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout
Burnout is an indicator that something has gone wrong in the way we organize our work. But as a concept it remains lodged in an old paradigm—a work ethic that was already dubious in America’s industrial period, and now, in a period of extreme inequality and increasing precarity across once-stable professions, is even harder to credit.