I was nodding along until the last section about what organizations can do for their people and it’s like give them a “human moment” where they can talk to a person every 4 hours or do some light exercise. Maybe give them a brain healthy snack… Seriously?! Why can’t we ever step back and recognize that it might be that the demand is too high and that is not some failure of character of the worker? I hear a lot of people complain that worker productivity has increased without wages having grown to match. Why don’t we stop to question the need to constantly be productive more? The productivity monster is never satisfied; always asking for the line to grow higher and the employee to be more efficient with their time. The first half of the article states our brains are simply not wired for that level of demand and then the author suggest we life hack our way through it to even greater levels of productivity. They tack on unlimited sick days as an after thought, but even that is crap if the company culture is wholely focused on productivity. Workers will be trained to not use it. Those that can work from home, just pivot to that so they don’t get others sick, but they also don’t get behind in work. It’s insanity.
Exactly! The answer to inability to keep working due to soreness from years of physically intense labor isn’t to offer an extra break, or high nutrition snacks, though also that. The solution is to ask if you’re demanding unreasonable things from people.
I wanted to comment something useful here, but having both ADHD and a completely fried brain from burnout made me forget what I just wanted to say. I still decided to tell you because I somehow found it a bit funny.
Guys, remember to take care of you and do regular breaks! 🤗
