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It’s hard to know what to make of this when you also read that job satisfaction is at historic highs[1]. One reading is being highly engaged in your job is rela
by softwaredoug 2y ago
It’s hard to know what to make of this when you also read that job satisfaction is at historic highs[1]. One reading is being highly engaged in your job is related to burnout, because you’re more likely to be unhappy when your job doesn’t go the way you want. Whereas just punching a clock you take it less seriously.
1 - https://www.conference-board.org/press/job-satisfaction-hits-all-time-high https://www.conference-board.org/press/job-satisfaction-hits...
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoI am not sure how seriously you can ever take a workplace employer survey. I worked at a place with a particularly grouchy director. Employee survey- many people expressed dissatisfaction with him and the company. He called a meeting of all his underlings effectively saying as confrontationally as possible, “Why aren’t you idiots happy? I am so good to you!” To enormous surprise, the next survey results were significantly higher. Without apparent change in director behavior.
- dogleash 2y agoI looked at their report. The year-to-year trend doesn't show COVID. 2020 looks like 2017. That's enough for me to write it off entirely, but I kept reading. It's surveying overall satisfaction, and what they identify as components of job satisfaction. It's the kind of stuff you'd use to compare between multiple job offers. The burnt out can recognize they have "good" jobs when their subjective experience is miserable. The measured things that you might think are related to burnout (workload, recognition, vacation, interest in work), those things are scored in context of working for a living, not existential satisfaction. Very different from the items and context of the Maslach Burnout Inventory.