Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit
All the "strategies" (really just tips) follow the same pattern of either tunneling on overwork as a cause, treating symptoms or pathos.<p>>Sid and Michelle emphasized that the earlier a manager can identify burnout the better.<p>Honestly, at the point of identification, you're likely too late. Especially for something as insidious as burnout, which can last for years and not show any symptoms before it is beyond the point of no return.<p>>GitLab team members are often under a lot of pressure.<p>So stop putting them under a lot of pressure. The second tip hints at this, but it only seems to be a reactionary measure. Maybe all this goalsetting, OKRs and such is exactly the problem with the industry, always having to feel pressured to an extreme by metrics and stats which effectively mean nothing, when most people just want to put in an honest day's work and progress.<p>Maybe it's time to admit corporations went too far pressuring the average worker to worry over every little detail.