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So is the burnout because you’re just grinding all the time on tightly defined stories and you feel like there is no room to slow down? Legitimately curious and

• dave_sullivan 8y ago
  It's not even tightly defined stories, it's just teams working too much with no downtime, no time to slow down and catch your breath. There are always more things to do than time to do them, so unless lines are drawn the default is perpetual overwork. Many seem to freak out at the concept of working less. Yet the 40 hour work week was considered radical at one point. Googles 80% time is by most accounts not a real thing, but it's a start. I'm at 75% time here. Then there's 996 if you want to go the opposite direction.