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How To Fight and Prevent Burnout
Alicia Sedlock | @aliciability Web Unleashed 2016
– Wikipedia
“Burnout is a type of psychological stress. Occupational burnout or job burnout is characterized by exhaustion, lack of enthusiasm and motivation, feelings of ineffectiveness, and also may have the dimension of frustration or cynicism, and as a result reduced efficacy within the workplace.”
But definitions are boring.
Burnout is different for everyone.
Burnout vs. Technical Growth
Expectations of technical growth
• Personal projects, side things, coding all the time
• Assumes the person has low number of outside priorities
• Assume people will speak up when they are starting to wear thin
Realities of technical growth
• There's not infinite time - we've got lives
• It's unpaid labor
• We want technical experts who are young, because tech ageism
Why are we seeing a public increase in burnout stories?
Hypothesis A
The past few years have seen pushes to have more representation in technical teams. Unrepresented groups have to work twice as hard as their majority peers to be see as successful. So in order to "keep up", they are already pushing too hard.
Hypothesis B
We expect developers to know everything about everything.
Hypothesis C
Ageism in tech puts pressure on folks new in the industry.
Hypothesis D
Information overload makes us thing we’re behind.
Stages of burnout
Stages of burnout
• The compulsion to prove one’s self
Stages of burnout
• Working harder
Stages of burnout
• Neglecting their own needs
Stages of burnout
• Displacement of conflicts
Stages of burnout
• Revision of values
Stages of burnout
• Denial of emerging problems
Stages of burnout
• Withdrawal
Stages of burnout
• Obvious behavioral changes
Stages of burnout
• Depersonalization
Stages of burnout
• Inner emptiness
Stages of burnout
• Depression
Stages of burnout
• Burnout syndrome
So…what do we do about it?
Individual
Say no
Check in on yourself
Learn in moderation
Learn to focus on extensible knowledge
What do people want to know you for?
Don't dismiss passive learning
Organizational
Take no as an answer
Make sure your employees are set up for
success
Don’t neglect the importance on
one-on-one meetings
Want your team to learn? Give them time to learn
Understand boundaries.
We all have intellectual FOMO. Let’s be honest
about it.
If it’s not your bottom line, don’t do it.
Thanks@aliciability
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