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57% of Tech Workers Are Suffering From Job Burnout, Survey Finds (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A survey conducted among the tech workers, including many employees of Silicon Valley's elite tech companies, has revealed that over 57% of respondents are suffering from job burnout. The survey was carried out by the makers of an app that allows employees to review workplaces and have anonymous conversations at work, behind their employers' backs. Over 11K employees answered one question -- if they suffer from job burnout, and 57.16% said "Yes."
The company with the highest employee burnout rate was Credit Karma, with a whopping 70.73%, followed by Twitch (68.75%), Nvidia (65.38%), Expedia (65.00%), and Oath (63.03% -- Oath being the former Yahoo company Verizon bought in July 2017). On the other end of the spectrum, Netflix ranked with the lowest burnout rate of only 38.89%, followed by PayPal (41.82%), Twitter (43.90%), Facebook (48.97%), and Uber (49.52%).
The company with the highest employee burnout rate was Credit Karma, with a whopping 70.73%, followed by Twitch (68.75%), Nvidia (65.38%), Expedia (65.00%), and Oath (63.03% -- Oath being the former Yahoo company Verizon bought in July 2017). On the other end of the spectrum, Netflix ranked with the lowest burnout rate of only 38.89%, followed by PayPal (41.82%), Twitter (43.90%), Facebook (48.97%), and Uber (49.52%).
Tech work culture is seriously broken when 80 hour weeks and never going on vacation for any reason is encouraged and celebrated. Burnout under such conditions is inevitable.
Long on call hours. Declining inflation adjusted wages. Having to spend hours and hours of your own time training because companies don't train anymore. Constant threats of outsourcing or being replaced by an H1-B applicant (despite the fact that that is explicitly illegal).
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Try working construction for minimum wage and not knowing where your next job will come from. Then have your blood pressure tested.
Always take it. Every year -- don't set a precedent that you're overly hard-working...
$250k/yr if you have no time to enjoy it is worthless unless you plan to work for a few years, live like a miser, and invest enough of it in rental property so you never have to work again.
Lots of companies now offer "unlimited" PTO- but that really just means there is less incentive to let you take time off, and you won't get paid out for unused vacation when you leave.
I've worked for companies that offer 2 - 3 weeks and unlimited. The companies with the unlimited policies ALWAYS track your PTO more closely than the ones that give a set number of days.
Yes, but the stress that tech people experience is completely fake. It REALLY doesn't matter if your work is done on time.
It does if you want to remain employed with your current company. If that doesn't matter to you then you probably aren't stressed to begin with. If anyone who worked for me expressed that attitude they would be "succeeding elsewhere" in short order.
No one is going to die if your software or network doesn't work.
I'd like to introduce you to some folks who work in medical IT who will disagree with you rather strongly. Same thing with software that controls/drives cars or airplanes or manned rockets or traffic signals or ocean navigation or food safety or electrical grids or nuclear reactor controls or.... The list is very long for things that actually do matter. Yeah, nobody probably cares if your word processor crashes but more than a few of us do things that have serious consequences.
Amazingly humans survived for thousands of years without IT or computers.
Ok we're done here. Claiming people shouldn't have stress because computers didn't exist 200 years ago is irrelevant and stupid.
Then refuse to work, yes you may get fired, but what's worse than getting fired? Working for free.
My boss is lucky if I even look at my phone off-business-hours, let alone pick it up and respond.
Sure, if an email is prefixed with "URGENT" or whatever, I take a look, but then I lazily come in the next day an hour or two "late".
It's all about the contract you signed with your employer. Don't sign shit you haven't read, and don't sign away your youth for pennies.
It is very nice to be independently wealthy and not have to worry about getting a paycheck, but for the rest of us we have to do it for a paycheck or face homelessness and possibly starvation.
If all available work is under such conditions, is that really a choice?
Yep, so many folks LOOOVVVVEEE 50, 60, 70 hour weeks, and having to respond to the boss 24x7x365.25. Who needs a life?
UNIONS are why we have benefits, weekends, holidays and vacations. No company did that out of the alleged kindness of their hearts.
But none of you here need them, they're *so* "ancient", never mind they could get you a 40 hour week and no being bothered off hours, no, enjoy your (non-) life.
It's FUNNY! It is written by someone with an extensive knowledge of English colloquial expressions, or copied from someone with that knowledge. MOD PARENT UP!
(There are areas where English is trashy. You may need to take a shower after you read this.)
Title: "I hole-hardedly agree..." -- I whole-heartedly agree...
"doubles advocate" -- devil's advocate
"all intensive purposes" -- all intents and purposes
"a diamond dozen" -- a dime a dozen
"a blessing in the skies" -- a blessing in disguise.
"on a petal stool" -- on a pedestal
"a bunch of pre-Madonnas" -- a bunch of primadonnas
"taking something very valuable for granite" -- taking something very valuable for granted"
"mustard up all the strength you can" -- muster up all the strength you can
"it is a doggy dog world" -- It is a dog-eat-dog world
"you have a huge ship on your shoulder." -- you have a huge chip on your shoulder.
" throw everything in but the kids Nsync" -- throw everything in but the kitchen sink
"you are having a feel day with this" -- you are having a field day with this
"I have a sick sense" -- I have a sixth sense
"I cannot turn a blonde eye" -- I cannot turn a blind eye
"I have zero taller ants" -- I have zero tolerance
"what comes around is all around" -- what comes around goes around [what goes around comes around]
"supply and command" -- supply and demand
"Make my words" -- Mark my words
"when you get down to brass stacks" -- when you get down to brass tacks
"it doesn't take rocket appliances" -- it doesn't take rocket science
"to get two birds stoned at once" -- to kill two birds with one stone
"who makes the pants in this relationship" -- who wears the pants in this relationship
"sometimes you just have to swallow your prize" -- sometimes you just have to swallow your pride
"come to this conclusion through denial and error" -- come to this conclusion through trial and error
"I swear on my mother's mating name" -- I swear on my mother's maiden name [not a usual expression]
"when you put the petal to the medal" -- when you put the pedal to the metal
"you will pass with flying carpets" -- you will pass with flying colors
"it's a peach of cake" -- it's a piece of cake
But the truth is that tech jobs can be stressful too. I imagine people in blue collar jobs believe we are living high on the hog with not a care in the world, but it's not really that way.
I was pulling long hours one week to try and finish a software update in time. The deadline was fast approaching and the outlook was grim. As usual, the cleaning lady came by to collect the trash that evening and we got to chit-chatting like we usually did (I arrived late and stayed late back then, so my being there when she did her rounds was perfectly normal). Part way through the conversation she paused for a moment, then said something to the effect of, "You know, before I started working here I used to think that you guys all had it easy with your cushy jobs and nice offices. But then I see people here with the look that you have in your eyes right now and I realize I was wrong. It's just as tough. Different, but just as tough, if not tougher."
I think I mustered a tired "Thanks?" in response.
I don't make any claim to having it tougher than anyone else (I have a MASSIVE appreciation for manual workers, among many other fields, since I couldn't do that work), but the only people I find suggesting that tech work is easy are those who either aren't in the field and have no awareness of what it entails, or those who are a burden on everyone else around them in the field.