• Do not isolate yourself: speak your concerns to your manager.
• It’s a bug: As a software developer, see that the problem you have is a bug that needs to be eradicated.
• Know your path: Meditate to find clarity and understand...

Knowledge workers, especially in software development suffer from an inherent absence of fairness, where the usual ‘tangible’ indicators of work like staying late at work doing overtime are rewarded by the managers.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Burnout is a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that one has failed to manage.

We may think that burnout, due to work or even otherwise, is something that only happens to othe...

There are many companies that create a ‘road to burnout’ and there are some signs that point towards that:

1. Criticising your colleagues, clients, managers for their decisions or actions.
2. Having an impression of decreased work quality.
3. Only doing the work that is aske...

You can get clarity on your needs and requirements by asking yourself the following:

1. What is it that you want to accomplish in life?
2. What is the amount of money you require to be happy, without compromising on your mental health?
3. What is your d...

Do something different and playful, like drawing or writing. Having a hobby provides us with a creative outlet and gives us a sense of accomplishment. It is good to just enjoy the process and not to make it another goal with deadlines and pressure.

If things are serious, you can see a spec...

1. Overwork or overcommitment is a clear cause of burnout, at least in the case of software development, as it is an isolated working profile.
2. Lack of trust from the manager, combined with a lack of authority or autonomy towards your ...

• A company with a generative culture ensures the psychological safety of an employee. The focus is good results, with shared risks, and all failures being accepted as a default. In such a company, one is not afraid to commit mistakes, experiment or express ...

It gets frustrating to become involved in our work, but to have a work environment that is not conducive to our deeper involvement.

If a workplace rookie (or even a manager) finds the working environment to be authoritative, opaque, chaotic or uncaring towards the employee, there is bound ...

Our interactions with our co-workers affect us in various ways. There can be unresolved conflicts, abuse of power, bullying, harassment, and smear campaigns that we may have to endure.

The managers should check this in the one-on-one sessions and ensure that the employee d...