Ways to improve mental health for software developers
Yeah yeah EAP and watercooler conversations. Here&#x27;s some things that would actually make my life and mental health as developer at a large game company better:<p>- Eliminate crunch time due to management&#x27;s bad planning<p>- If crunch time is &quot;unavoidable,&quot; apologize and <i>pay me for it</i>. 1.5x for every hour over 40 would go a long way towards making me not resent the blundering middle managers that got us into the &quot;we have to release yesterday&quot; situation<p>- Know what&#x27;s important; when everything is &quot;top priority,&quot; nothing is, and your developers have no idea what they should work on next<p>- Weekly team meetings are for positive reinforcement, not &quot;things are looking fine but we gotta keep pushing.&quot; That kind of &quot;motivation&quot; is extremely heavy on the mind<p>- Remind us that sick days are for both physical and mental health and encourage us to use them if we need them