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GitLab team member here. While this blog post looks at what managers can do, we've also recently started using Yerbo (Slack app) internally to help individuals
by john_cogs 4y ago
GitLab team member here.
While this blog post looks at what managers can do, we've also recently started using Yerbo (Slack app) internally to help individuals to assess their own risk of burnout. See: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#yerbo-slack-app https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#yerbo-slack...
Mental health and well-being is always a concern at GitLab (ex: the Friends and Family days that we implemented and maintained throughout the pandemic to ensure team members are taking time off). This month, however, we've been adding additional focus to the topic as May is Mental Health Awareness month.
- mdb31 4y ago@john_cogs: Are there any plans to connect a self-assessment of mental state to the assignment of issues/pings about mentions/incident-response pages in the GitLab app? So, on "I'm on top of the world" days, I get assigned All The Issues, get a full-screen popup about each mention, and will be asked to be incident lead on just about anything. Then, if my state is "slightly hungover", I mostly get a list of the most pressing issues still pending, without being overloaded with new stuff. And finally, the "hugging my teddy bear" state: no additional automated workloads, respectful notifications to anyone pinging me, and a note to my manager if it lasts more than a few days?
- john_cogs 4y agoI'm not aware of any plans for a GitLab x Yerbo integration right now but that's a really interesting proposal.
- marcossponton 4y agoYerbo CEO here. Yes, we have a Yerbo+Gitlab/Github integration coming. At the beginning it will be to identify and prevent mental wellbeing anti-patterns and then we'll move forward into this direction you mentioned. Feel free to reach me out to marcos at yerbo dot co if you want to expand your use case!