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 enough to have that kind of conversation…
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 it is faster at generating BS reports…
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 and gave up. Local government now…
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?
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 promotion anymore but that you can't go…
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 know leadership has no interest in…
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 per Doctorate year... Cost of life…
> 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 professional ailment caused by work conditions…
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 rotations which should increase meaning of…
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 things managers may tell you to delegate to…
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 can itself also contribute to burnout,…
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 disrespectful to those with actual…
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 caugh might just spread it. Personnally,…
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 more of it needs doing.
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 leftovers of their no longer prestigious /…
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), not counting the blocks suggesting new…
Maybe the problem is paid dating aps? Also enshitification is real there too, I don't think I'd find anyone now on the same dating app I met my spouse on years ago.
I have yet to see an LLM reliably push back against anything firmly, so I don't know how this would work if the first time a user says the LLM is wrong, it apologizes for the confusion and flips its script. Also, LLM…
> stream 30 minutes of _____ to a friend and unlock an avatar for your profile! Sounds like enshitifications has begun already
Sure, if you think about it, layoffs are actually good for employees career growth and the chocolate ration went up to 20 grammes per week.
TLDR but i searched the linked page for america and the only mention is a theory, no proof: "In 1930 Austrian-American economist Gottfried Haberler detached the doctrine of comparative advantage from Ricardo's labor…
Europe has great employee protection but it is not always this panacea either everywhere. When I worked in Paris, I started at 10 am (to avoid rush hour on the subway), but rarely left before 7 or 8 (instead of 6) and…
That's rough. Hope you find the job you need soon. I wish money management was taught in schools. My family didn't have money so how were they supposed to teach me about compound interests. And those growing up in money…
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 enough to have that kind of conversation…
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 it is faster at generating BS reports…
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 and gave up. Local government now…
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?
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 promotion anymore but that you can't go…
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 know leadership has no interest in…
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 per Doctorate year... Cost of life…
> 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 professional ailment caused by work conditions…
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 rotations which should increase meaning of…
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 things managers may tell you to delegate to…
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 can itself also contribute to burnout,…
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 disrespectful to those with actual…
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 caugh might just spread it. Personnally,…
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 more of it needs doing.
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 leftovers of their no longer prestigious /…
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), not counting the blocks suggesting new…
Maybe the problem is paid dating aps? Also enshitification is real there too, I don't think I'd find anyone now on the same dating app I met my spouse on years ago.
I have yet to see an LLM reliably push back against anything firmly, so I don't know how this would work if the first time a user says the LLM is wrong, it apologizes for the confusion and flips its script. Also, LLM…
> stream 30 minutes of _____ to a friend and unlock an avatar for your profile! Sounds like enshitifications has begun already
Sure, if you think about it, layoffs are actually good for employees career growth and the chocolate ration went up to 20 grammes per week.
TLDR but i searched the linked page for america and the only mention is a theory, no proof: "In 1930 Austrian-American economist Gottfried Haberler detached the doctrine of comparative advantage from Ricardo's labor…
Europe has great employee protection but it is not always this panacea either everywhere. When I worked in Paris, I started at 10 am (to avoid rush hour on the subway), but rarely left before 7 or 8 (instead of 6) and…
That's rough. Hope you find the job you need soon. I wish money management was taught in schools. My family didn't have money so how were they supposed to teach me about compound interests. And those growing up in money…