I think employees are more disengaged. This is anecdotal, but the pandemic and climate change have tainted my work with a certain hopelessness. It’s hard to lis

I think employees are more disengaged. This is anecdotal, but the pandemic and climate change have tainted my work with a certain hopelessness. It’s hard to listen to “best quarter yet!” CEO pep speeches and feel like enthusiastic about some new feature you code when existential threats seem close at hand. Combine that with economic policies that seem to create and obliterate fortunes with a hand wave, an increasing wealth gap, and an extremely inaccessible housing market, and it is hard to keep your your hopes up and your nose down.