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If you were a professional painter and every couple of months, someone snuck into your art studio, threw out all your brushes, paint, canvas, and then dumped a huge load of requests for you to "fix" your old paintings, I'm pretty sure you'd get burned out pretty quick.
Is maintenance the cause of burnout then?
This is why I have a tough time putting much weight into the soft-sciences. I don't see any operational definition of "Burnout" so this is like asking people if they feel "fast". How about something like "How many times a week do you feel like not coming into work?" But these subjective terms are useless.
Burnout is not just a subjective term. It is a highly researched syndrome and can be tested for.
If you were a professional painter and every couple of months, someone snuck into your art studio, threw out all your brushes, paint, canvas, and then dumped a huge load of requests for you to "fix" your old paintings, I'm pretty sure you'd get burned out pretty quick.
We see a lot of VCs blog about how you can’t succeeded if you don’t work long, hard hours but the truth is the complete opposite. You can’t operate at peak coding performance if you’re not rested, motivated and feeling creative.
4 day work weeks (or less), 100% flexible schedules, wfh and far fewer meetings are some ways you can combat burnout.
If you were a professional painter and every couple of months, someone snuck into your art studio, threw out all your brushes, paint, canvas, and then dumped a huge load of requests for you to "fix" your old paintings, I'm pretty sure you'd get burned out pretty quick.
Developers are getting too spoiled. Did someone do the same research for teachers for example.
From the actual study "A total of 83% of Software Engineers reported feelings of burnout with only 17% reporting no burnout. 55%, a majority, reported “great” or “moderate” levels of burnout."
What is a "moderate level of burnout"? This is self-contradictory, so I'm not convinced that respondents really meant 'burnout' in the strict sense, and the question itself leads to this lack of clarity.
Q1. To what extent, if any, do the following statements apply to you?
I feel burnt out from work.
On a four-point scale, that scores 21%, 35%, 28%, 17%.
So, they took everyone except those who said they didn’t feel burnt out at all, and got 83%.
I think asking for feelings of burnout exaggerates the issue of being burnt out by a huge factor.
For me, burnout means not only being tired of your job, but also inability to ‘burn’ outside work. I don’t even see how you can be that moderately, but over a quarter of respondents reported that.