Is the idea of having a four-day work week sustainable for preventing burnout?

Love the paradigm shifts 💫💫💫

Lead by example . 💫

I will be eagerly awaiting the movie!!!

Damn, looking good Steve. Ozempic?

Why did you cut up the video? It feels like KZbin from 2009.

I am definitely on burnout. Thanks for explaining.

Amazing video! Haven’t read the book yet but definitely will.

nothing in this presentation about any of their success is about agile or devops or any other snake oil, it would just be leadership. if you don't have that the rest is useless

Right on, no matter what you do it's not enough, fast enough, and the inequality in treatment. I'm a top profomer but does my evaluation ever reflect that , NO! yet new hires get better pay and titles when they can't do the job. There's no motivation to do anything as they just pile more on you in less and less time. It's just not worth it.

I walked out on the job that i had work so hard to attain. I was a school principal in a small Texas town. Campus was doing better than what i inherited. scores were up, discipline was better. Problem was that I had a boss that was about nothing but politics and taking care of the “influential“ people on my campus. Stabbed in the back constantly. All I was ever told was I wasn’t the person they hired when in actuality, neither were they. In fact, who is going to be the same person in that environment? I got so burned out and depressed that I just walked out the day before school started. I was at the point that I didn’t wanna live anymore. I retired. I still have regret and nightmares. I hated leaving when I did but it was about self preservation at that point. Didn’t matter they had me replace in five minutes. One of the backstabber’s got the job.

This is excellent. I am getting away from my job. I watched some poor A and E doctor and host. Their ideas were breathing and hide in the toilet!

I believe that many of the issues related to burnout stem from poor management. People have always worked hard, but the stress often arises from managers who place undue responsibility on their employees, with attitudes like, “I pay you to not have problems.” This approach can create an overwhelming environment for workers.

Guy selling shovel tells room full of gold miners to keep buying shovels. Sourcegraph is a coding assistant company, this is basically an ad 😆. When you make wild statements like "people with coding assistant tools are 5x time more productive" I want to see metrics and studies. Not just "trust me bro I did the research".

It's called "performance punishment" when they find out you can over perform they put more work on you because they think you can handle it. But shows no appreciation and gives no more money.

Without going into all the gory details, I was begged to be on this particular project as a lead by a prior manager whom I had had great experience with on other projects in prior years. However, this particular project turned extremely dysfunctional with highly absurd expectations that could not be met. I believe she felt a lot of pressure from upper management to get X amount done in Y amount of time, but all our personnel were extremely inexperienced and there was no way it would be possible. She became very demanding and annoyed by me when I wanted to ensure we still did things properly despite the ridiculous pressures. Finally I was kicked off the project and a guy with half my years experience who didn't do work near as well as me, thus didn't notice when certain things weren't done right, took over my stuff. I was extremely insulted as I had worked my rear off with absurd hours for many months. On new projects I was asked to do, under a different manager, there were continued issues because the organization as a whole is dysfunctional for years. Prior to the project I had been begged to be on, I had managed to find myself a niche where I could avoid the dysfunction, still do work at my skill level and quality I felt right about, and get high ratings. With the subsequent assignments I encountered the prevalent dysfunction I had managed to avoid before. I ended up getting into a big conflict with the particular manager who ended up demoting me and putting a blackball on my recall status if there would ever be layoffs due to business downturn. Prior to this I had tried to discuss with him all the issues I perceived and experienced, but he didn't have empathy, he chose to see me from the most negative bias. He even wrote up a corrective action and improvement plan for me which I found absurd because all his reasons were out of context and untrue. He's the only manager who has ever done this in 33 years of experience with this company. Ludicrous when there are all kinds of other people performing substandard work, much of what I have fixed, yet they don't have this happen to them. I tried going to HR but they were completely useless, doing nothing to resolve the issue. I now feel I have to go to Ethics and hope for the best because every day I come to work now I feel nervous, tied up in knots, like I'm going to my execution as I walk in from the parking lot, afraid to look at my email. I know I am one of the most skilled people there, but my self esteem feels shot. I was supposedly to be transferred to a different team, which I am doing work for, with a different manager, but they still have me assigned to the manager who did this garbage me. And, he and the new manager and their manager are in cahoots on all this treating me like I'm some criminal. This has been ongoing duress and burnout for 2 years now. All I want is to be able to get back to doing work as I was accustomed to and relatively content with prior to this one manager begging me to be on her project. I am nearing retirement, but I still need to hang in a few more years as finally, after being single almost my whole life, I am getting married and I need a few more years working to be sure things can be secure for our future, and her should I die first, as I am 11 years older. This should be a time of my happiness, but the way I'm being treated by these managers has put a cloud over it. Thankfully she is so wonderful and understanding, so I know I found the right woman finally. Anyway, I was going to write up my whole situation for Ethics to review, and hopefully solve, but my head gets all fuzzy because how do I describe this complicated situation to them. Even what I've written here only scratches the surface of explaining it. P.s. I work in aerospace for a large corporation.

So many people at work casually say "I'm burnt out" but really they have no idea what burnout is.

I have a relative working in a Statistics Bureau... 2 employees already died because they were denied time off to see a doctor. One family sued, so vacation time was made mandatory on the paper. The bureau gives the employees homework for the vacation. and they have to be doing work at home anyways. There used to be a union, but the union disappeared or died off...My relative workload went really up. She used to work along with other two employees. The two other employees were separately dismissed...she has a 300% work load increase and barely sleeping 2h or 3h per night; on top of that she's really sleep deprived, she's ben diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and she could break down any time...she's the main breadwinner in her home and work is very scarce in her city...The superiors keep threatening he with her job, so she just keeps delivering and they keep pushing, the bosses know no limits...what could be done?

I can’t quit, we’re building a house and have a mortgage and will be trying for a baby. I’m trapped.

Great talk and also great slides!

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Unfortunately Mark audio was terrible and difficult to understand .

How do we add freshers to this mix?

I've worked two jobs for the last 5 years One is a business that I run after work to support a family of three children who are teenagers. I used to be really passionate about my business I no longer can stomach doing it but I keep pushing through. I'm trying to figure out how to take a break I believe I have burnout

Very insightful.

I think I have been burnt out since I was 20 I started at a lawfirm in management ended up doing the job for 4 managers I barely got paid more then left went into sales moved to australia looked after 3 whole states for 16 years the owner kept saying he was running at a loss he wasn’t he was super greedy ..everytime I asked for more $$ he promised everything delivered nothing- it was all rubbish I left it’s taken me 2.5 years to recover. I feel totally used like work was a machine that just chewed me up and spat me out.

Well read, Rene!

There is job burnout and then there is burnout. It is completely naive and shortsighted by the WHO to label this a workplace syndrome - what, because thats what Christina said? Burnout is the amalgamation of all stressors, not just workplace - to suggest anything otherwise is nothing but a mislabeled oversight - a complete half-baked attempt at simplifying a complex topic by superficially limiting the subject matter.

RIP Ranga. Gone far too soon.

Hello, I’ve a question about beating the french roulette at the Casino… As we know the french roulette has an negative mathematical expectation (Albert Einstein himself would have said that is impossible). A human being who could beat the french roulette in the long run would be a 6, 7 or even 10 sigma ?

RIP Ranga 💔

Good

So it's more prevalent in liberals...

great talk and awesome journey!

Very good and I am experiencing that. Quitting might be a solution

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a victory

crinnnnnnnnnnge ... i wouldn't thoze so called consultants

FYI, the 35-minute video on IT Revolution does not play. It quits with "Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here."

This is the guy, cool.

After conducting a comprehensive analysis of your KZbin Channel, I am genuinely impressed by its substantial potential. I believe that by working together collaboratively, we can achieve significant accomplishments. Are you interested in delving into a more in-depth discussion on this opportunity?

Great books and video. Thank you Mark.

I am basically on the brink of collapse, but know it's only due to work. Had taken a leave of absence, time off, switched employers, but always the same: do more with less. Days are spent in meetings and such, then in the evenings begin quiet work, reading through the hundreds of e-mails from the day, making to do list for next day, the cycle continues. My eating has suffered immensely (basically poor grab and go stuff, whatever is fastest), and I've stopped making plans with friends as I tend to end up having to cancel due to work emergencies. It's easy to say to change again, but took nine months to find the last job, so it's tricky out there here right now. I know this isn't good for me health-wise. Constant chest pain, feeling nauseous from stress, crazy insomnia, etc. Is this how life is?

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"There are frustrations". No really ??? How come ??? Those consulting people ... what bunch of useless f****

Hi, I've been closely studying your KZbin Channel for some time now, and I see great potential. I believe we can achieve remarkable things together. Would you be interested in discussing this further?

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The project to product transformation revolution does not appear to be happening!

Watching this as I work...on the weekend

Given I presented this session in 2019, i thought I'd share a link to an updated version - it has my evolved thinking since that time and dives deeper into complexity of change, clearer alignment to the 3 ways of DevOps and how to structure a complimentary testing strategy - here's the updated version - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5baoJWeoKd9ftksi=meyqiQgPQHev_qWZ