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Maybe this is true if you only look at paid labor, but there are other ways in which elders add value to society, as they do a lot of invisiblized unpaid work. Their pensions play …

I get this feeling sometimes, like it is so unreliable at referring to context and getting details right it feels like deliberate random rewards to create the equivalent to a gambl…

I guess by design since odor can inform health too. Also, a poopshelf may lack odor control, but it offers splash control.

There were already too few people for the tasks before this round of layoffs. The working order has been "do more with less, use AI" for over a year. Every MS FTE whom I knew enoug…

Finally! A friend was an in-house reseacher at some car manufacturer, whose job is to usability tests car prototypes, including in real traffic. She was telling me about one study …

anecdata n=1: LLMs lack understanding of context, stakeholder sensitivities and nuance in word usage, to write reports with the required depth and at the quality bar I need. Maybe …

Easier said than done these days. We had a coop managing out drinking water with local government support. Being a coop excluded them from grants and eventually the board burnt out…

> The field of AI research has a reputation for disregarding the value of other fields [...] It’s likely that, being unaware of much of the research in psychology on cognitive bias…

curious: why do alarm clocks run on batteries? Seems counter intuitive for a device that is just going to sit in one place to not be plugged in?

oh interesting, how do you define older here though? I'm a bit skeptical because i read a similar comment about answering calls immediately vs. letting it go to the answering machi…

I don't think I'd handle a wearing a watch anymore, smart or not. For waking up, something not technological but working 99% of the time for me: pets (or kids) though you'd want ot…

The opposite can also be true, you know it is a bad work situation and you are going to burn out but you can't afford to leave. Not that you want to stay, you don't even want that …

Academia is where research happens. Employers have no incentive to do research that would force them to spend more on employee wellness. I worked on enough team health surveys to k…

Yeah, if I had kids I'd go back to france for studying costs: 175 euros per bachelor year; 250 euros per Master year; 618 euros per (public) engineering school year* ; 391 euros pe…

> The article says "everyday life is much harder now, and getting harder". That may be, but there's no proof this is causing more burnout. The definition of burnout is a profession…

I couldn't find a reference to the specific case study but there's definitely human factors/ergonomics research about this - one example was about a factory introduced task rotatio…

I think the difference is that knowledge + actively thinking is more akin to sprinting all day, jogging being more akin to just relying on knowledge.

the low thinking work still exists in housekeeping tasks but those are non promotable and seen as wasting time/skill... so people shy away from doing these. Those are also the thin…

Avoiding overtime helps but if the work conditions are conducive to burnout it can happen even to part time workers. How much work it takes to protect the balance to avoid burnout …

This aligns with my experience. There's this GDC talk that really resinated with me about how side projects can help avoid burnout in the games industry: https://youtube.com/watch?…

An increasing number of my colleagues are using burnout for entirely inappropriate reason like "I was so burnt out last year from all the travel and vacation planning". It is so di…

distancing oneself from work (not caring) is a symptom of burnout, symptoms are a coping mechanism but that doesn't mean they're a cure... sure a fever helps fight illness but a ca…

The work was harder but people also didn't wash their shirts after wearing it a single day/time. Machines increased expectations, resulting in workload to remain comparable, since …

I may be cynical but I don't think men flee fields were women manage to enter. I do see this trend though. But I rather see it as men moving to the next cool thing, leaving the lef…

Same experience. My friends and local community posts a lot, but facebook will only show me 1 connection for for every 7 rando reels / recommended / sponsored channels (aka ads), n…