The Dev Lead Trenches:
Burning Out
By Chris Tankersley
The tech industry is a double-edged sword. On the one side, we (generally) have well-paying jobs with nice perks, but on the other, we can easily slip into not only boring, repetitive work but figurative death marches. The former is used by most companies as an offset to the latter, but that rarely works out well. This leads many developers to come face-to-face with burnout. Burnout is unhealthy for any individual, but it will kill your team’s productivity, increase turnover, and make it harder to recruit as people learn about the environment at your company.
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This article was originally published in the October 2018 issue of php[architect] magazine. You can read the complete article at the following links. To see the full issue, please subscribe or purchase the complete issue.
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