To employees in the technology industry, long hours, relentless demands, and high stress are nothing new. These pressures have been intensified by an increasingly competitive landscape, surges of layoffs, and the race to innovate in the age of AI.
Though it is common for progressive, future-forward companies to promote flexibility and wellbeing to their workers via à la mode work aesthetics and lifestyle benefits, the outside weight of ongoing events in the industry imposes a contradictory expectation. And though working at home and hybrid arrangements may seem to optimize equilibrium, we are often seeing an opposite effect, creating an incubator for overworking and less parity - a recipe for burnout. So, what can companies do to reinforce balance and combat burnout?
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