Burnout is real – how to avoid it
Burnout is an inevitable consequence of the modern workplace for a lot of people. A lot of those who don&#x27;t have any problem with burnout are the ones burning out other people.<p>In the modern workplace, workers are often given a task without being given the good conditions to take it through, or a good overview of the context that the task is part of.<p>A good percentage of the tasks but not all are hot potatoes, and it can get very political (in some places this is worst than others, but its always there).<p>You get to the office in the morning and have new 10 trouble tickets assigned to you, with estimations of 2 or 3h of execution time over which you have no control, estimated by a clueless middle manager who has never coded the simplest of programs in his&#x2F;her life.<p>If you make too many waves or comments about the length of the tasks, you are not going to last long and you know it, so what do you do?<p>Stay late, take shorter breaks, connect one hour in the evening to get a couple more things done or do some preparation work like analysis, reading documentation, answer emails, etc.<p>If you don&#x27;t do that, you know that it&#x27;s a fast track to performance improvement program which is essentially a death sentence.<p>I think the problem is the system and not people, the current employer&#x2F;employee social contract is needing a huge rehaul because society is coming to a breaking point which all these jobs disappearing due to automation and informatisation in general.