- I almost never work weekends (1/20 weekends at most), and unless I'm on-call I completely shut out work. I treat weekends as a mini-vacation that happens every week. - If someone slacks me on a weekend, I respond almost immediately and ask if I can get back to them first thing on Monday. 95% of the time they say it's not urgent at all. If they say it's urgent I stop everything and help them. - I have slack notifications snoozed after about 8pm on weekdays. - I almost always take an hour for lunch. - I wake up and take a one hour walk in the morning. - If I work a long day (more than 8 hours), I take an hour or two dinner break to refresh, then I'll work another 2 or 3 hours before going to bed. I do this occasionally, maybe 25% of weekdays. - I try to get a good solid 6+ hours of sleep every night, and I rarely drink alcohol during the week since I find that even a few drinks can mess with sleep. Any other tips to avoid #burnout?
Wow to this - if I work for long hrs (>8 hrs)? Do u feel burnt out when you work for ours a day? I need that job
These are great tips thank you!
I always thought taking 1 hour for lunch and dinner is the minimal =| otherwise my digestive system would not be happy. Im taking 1.5hr for lunch nowadays
These are all great unless you’re in a work culture where everyone you work with does the exact opposite, in which case you get the big PIP if you don’t fall in line.
Not true. OPs description sounds like they know how to be really productive in a finite amount of time, and am pretty sure they can beat the over-worked bad-culture people on quality and quantity. There are extremely diminishing returns to working higher number of hours than what OP describes, and I say this as someone who regularly pulled 100+ hour weeks in the past.
Yep exactly. Multivariate optimization across two axes: 1) productivity output and 2) mental and physical health and energy levels. Still refining the formula, but it seems to be working because I see coworkers in stress induced meltdowns and feel my productivity is at least on par with theirs, probably higher. Based on the feedback from this thread I think the lowest hanging fruit for my own improvement is to get more disciplined about blocking out interruption noise from slack and email. But to be fair I’ve only tested my formula under “reasonable” conditions, and totally get that some folks are spitting out their coffee laughing because they’re in unreasonable conditions where you choose between taking that 11pm call with Bangalore that might drag on for hours, or face the dreaded PIP. I feel for you, that sounds horrible. Personally I would just leave cuz YOLO. Screw the money, there’s money elsewhere.
Your list reads like a dystopian hellscape tbh. How about this: -I don't work weekends. -I don't work over 8 hours in a day. -I always take an hour lunch, and I include that in my 8 hours, so really I work 7 hours. -I don't look at slack, email, or anything work related after I close my laptop for the day, and I certainly would never consider looking at it on the weekend. If someone messages me, they'll get a response on the next business day.
That only works at some companies
I used to work at amazon and did exactly the same, excluding oncall weeks where I would occasionally have to work odd hours if I got paged. Otherwise same thing as I do now: 8 hours, then go home and pretend work doesn't exist. Didn't even have email on my phone (cause fuck their MDM policy, not installing that on my personal phone). My managers never cared since I got my work done. Always had stellar performance reviews.
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In a previous job I worked on a team where everyone had their lunch at their desk and worked nights and weekends. Suddenly, another team moved next to us and this one guy went on a run every day from 11:00am to noon. People came by asking for him and we’d say “Oh, he’s on his run”. He even ran in the rain. Ever since then I’ve taken a full hour lunch away from my desk.
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My anti-burnout strategy is to leave Amazon.