<story><title>Burnoutindex.org</title><url>https://burnoutindex.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sz4kerto</author><text>Be really careful with these surveys.&lt;p&gt;The problems of these, among other things:&lt;p&gt;- mixing up burnout risk with burnout&lt;p&gt;- mixing up burnout with physical or mental fatigue&lt;p&gt;- not serving any purpose (i.e. not providing good directions)&lt;p&gt;Burnout is primarily a negative change in perception, and it&amp;#x27;s a spectrum, obviously. You get burned out when your perception of the same situation gets progressively worse. This can be caused by various factors -- exhaustion, doing stuff that doesn&amp;#x27;t match your values, etc. It can also be prevented in various ways; i.e. you can do very exhausting work and not get burned out.&lt;p&gt;A really simplistic, but fun&amp;#x2F;useful way of detecting burnout (not the risk): if you regularly think that you and your team&amp;#x2F;company&amp;#x2F;environment work hard, but your customers&amp;#x2F;broader company&amp;#x2F;other teams are stupid&amp;#x2F;not intelligent&amp;#x2F;not constructive, then that&amp;#x27;s the first phase (&amp;#x27;us vs them&amp;#x27;). This can progress to the next phase, where it&amp;#x27;s more like &amp;#x27;me vs them&amp;#x27;, so you despise most of your environment. This is when people tend to leave. The last step is apathy, people rarely end here.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not really possible to move backwards on this scale without changing roles&amp;#x2F;work&amp;#x2F;colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChefboyOG</author><text>Our common idea of burnout largely comes from Christina Maslach—the Maslach Burnout Inventory is more or less the standard tool that psychologists use to score and diagnose burnout now—and interestingly, it diagnoses burnout as three related but independent subscales:&lt;p&gt;Exhaustion - somewhat self-explanatory&lt;p&gt;Professional Efficacy - your view of your performance&lt;p&gt;Cynicism - a distancing of yourself from your job&lt;p&gt;Though you may come across different names in different writings. It&amp;#x27;s interesting how the subscales impact each other.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if I fully buy into the framework 100%, but it makes for interesting research nonetheless.</text></comment>
<story><title>Burnoutindex.org</title><url>https://burnoutindex.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sz4kerto</author><text>Be really careful with these surveys.&lt;p&gt;The problems of these, among other things:&lt;p&gt;- mixing up burnout risk with burnout&lt;p&gt;- mixing up burnout with physical or mental fatigue&lt;p&gt;- not serving any purpose (i.e. not providing good directions)&lt;p&gt;Burnout is primarily a negative change in perception, and it&amp;#x27;s a spectrum, obviously. You get burned out when your perception of the same situation gets progressively worse. This can be caused by various factors -- exhaustion, doing stuff that doesn&amp;#x27;t match your values, etc. It can also be prevented in various ways; i.e. you can do very exhausting work and not get burned out.&lt;p&gt;A really simplistic, but fun&amp;#x2F;useful way of detecting burnout (not the risk): if you regularly think that you and your team&amp;#x2F;company&amp;#x2F;environment work hard, but your customers&amp;#x2F;broader company&amp;#x2F;other teams are stupid&amp;#x2F;not intelligent&amp;#x2F;not constructive, then that&amp;#x27;s the first phase (&amp;#x27;us vs them&amp;#x27;). This can progress to the next phase, where it&amp;#x27;s more like &amp;#x27;me vs them&amp;#x27;, so you despise most of your environment. This is when people tend to leave. The last step is apathy, people rarely end here.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not really possible to move backwards on this scale without changing roles&amp;#x2F;work&amp;#x2F;colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soneca</author><text>The first time I heard about burnout was from a colleague that was just trying to go back to a job after about two years being mentally unable to do any job. It started when one day, arriving at the work, they just froze and started crying uncontrollably.&lt;p&gt;It was a diagnosed condition. I am always unsure of what people are talking about when they talk about burnout. Is this panic attack that makes someone temporarily incapable of working or is a strong stress feeling that might be solved just by changing jobs?&lt;p&gt;The spectrum idea makes sense, but the situation, consequences, and ways to help are &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; different on different parts of this spectrum.</text></comment>