Where is lack of vacation time categorized into this? There are too many answers.
Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout
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Re: Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout
#12Misleading title: the original survey question is "What is the main source of employee burnout at your current workplace?". Positive answer to this question doesn't mean that the person answering the question is himself burnt out.
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#13Misleading title: the original survey question is "What is the main source of employee burnout at your current workplace?". Positive answer to this question doesn't mean that the person answering the question is himself burnt out.
So, I took this title from NextBigWhat. I haven't manufactured this by myself
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#14Could we please change this headline? At the moment it's pure clickbait.
"91% Employees Experience Burnout" implies that 91% of employees suffer from burnout, whereas - firstly - there is no data in the article to indicate that this is the case.
Secondly, the question that comes closest to the 91% answer is "What is the main source of employee burnout at your current workplace?", to which 9.7% of people answered that "Burnout isn't a problem at my company." This leaves 90.3% (and a rounding error!) who think that burnout is a problem at their company and think they know why that is. This does not mean they themselves are suffering or have suffered from burnout.
I'm not trying to minimise the problem of burnout, but I would strongly suggest if we're going to have a serious discussion about it we should get our facts and our data straight and not base that discussion off a poorly written and researched employee engagement puff-piece.
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#15Here's the primary source for the survey in question: http://blog.teamblind.com/index.php/2018/08/20/tech-workers-...
How useful is a survey like this? The survey does not define burnout to employees, leaving them to guess at the definition. Can employees reliably self-diagnose burnout and differentiate it from similar conditions - i.e. actual depression? Can they also reliably indicate the cause for the burnout, especially if the symptoms can overlap with the cause? Let's say you have burnout because of work overload, but you normally don't mind doing tons of work, just hate your boss. When the feelings of exhaustion/anger come up, will you point them at the work load or at your boss?
Perhaps you could relabel it as a survey on workplace discontent, but even then, I don't think it's really well made. The problem with statistical data like this is that we can see the primary source and temper our enthusiasm for the accuracy of the survey, down the broken telephone line, it will be taken as gospel(see the wage gap/sexual harassment statistics as examples).
Re: Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout
#16Could we please change this headline? At the moment it's pure clickbait. "91% Employees Experience Burnout" implies that 91% of employees suffer from burnout, whereas - firstly - there is no data in the article to indicate that this is the case. Secondly, the question that comes closest to the 91% answer is "What is the main source of employee burnout at your current workplace?", to which 9.7% of people answered that…
The headline is clickbait, it does not match the headline of the primary source: http://blog.teamblind.com/index.php/2018/08/20/tech-workers-...
It is also contradicted by the primary source's previous survey: http://blog.teamblind.com/index.php/2018/05/29/close-to-60-p...
Re: Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout
#17Could we please change this headline? At the moment it's pure clickbait. "91% Employees Experience Burnout" implies that 91% of employees suffer from burnout, whereas - firstly - there is no data in the article to indicate that this is the case. Secondly, the question that comes closest to the 91% answer is "What is the main source of employee burnout at your current workplace?", to which 9.7% of people answered that…
The headline is clickbait, it does not match the headline of the primary source: http://blog.teamblind.com/index.php/2018/08/20/tech-workers-... It is also contradicted by the primary source's previous survey: http://blog.teamblind.com/index.php/2018/05/29/close-to-60-p...
Nice spot. That tiny [via] link at the bottom is a really sneaky pattern. Didn't even notice it.
Re: Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout
#18Misleading title: the original survey question is "What is the main source of employee burnout at your current workplace?". Positive answer to this question doesn't mean that the person answering the question is himself burnt out.
So, I took this title from NextBigWhat. I haven't manufactured this by myself
[EDIT] Removed previous comment as the parent apparently missed the [via] link at the bottom of the article, the same as I did.
Re: Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout
#19Could we please change this headline? At the moment it's pure clickbait. "91% Employees Experience Burnout" implies that 91% of employees suffer from burnout, whereas - firstly - there is no data in the article to indicate that this is the case. Secondly, the question that comes closest to the 91% answer is "What is the main source of employee burnout at your current workplace?", to which 9.7% of people answered that…
I am really sorry but the HN don't allow to edit in this case.
Apart from it the original source is also speaking the same facts that the sole reason for burn out is poor leadership and unclear direction.
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#2091% of employees who have blind installed. Selection bias.