Category: Perspectives
Why I feel Google’s Marisa Mayer has the wrong perspective on burnout
It has been a little over a month since Google’s Marisa Mayer gave her talk where she discusses, among other things, career burnout. According to Schweitzer (2012), Mayer said “she believes there’s no such thing as burnout—that you can work really hard for the rest of your life as long as you know what matters [...]
Physician Burnout – the Three Symptoms, Three Phases and Three Cures
By Dike Drummond, MD Are YOU in the Danger Zone and What You Can DO about it. In my work with physician burnout and stress … I have come to the conclusion that our current Healthcare “System” (I use that term VERY loosely) is TOXIC to the Workers. There are exceptions to this trend … an occasional [...]
Physician Stress Affecting Patient Care
By Melissa Byington, President of CompHealth Locum Tenens As a leading physician staffing company, we at CompHealth are hearing more frequently from doctors searching for alternative practice options to combat burnout. To better understand this trend, we partnered with a top market research company to survey 1,000 physicians about workplace stress. Our findings clearly show that [...]
IT Administrators Experience High Stress Levels
By Nathan Eddy The top three sources of stress for IT admins are management, tight deadlines and the users they support. As part of National Stress Awareness Month, which kicked off April 1, GFI Software announced the results of its IT Admin Stress Survey, which found that 67 percent of IT administrators have considered switching [...]
Tips for getting past burnout
By Caron Carlson After so many years of being asked to walk on water, it’s understandable that you and your cohorts in IT would be feeling a little burnt out. Before throwing in the towel, take a look at six suggestions for rejuvenating your career, presented by Cindy Waxer at InformationWeek. Start by determining whether you are truly fed [...]
6 Ways To Beat IT Career Burnout
By Cindy Waxer InformationWeek More and more IT professionals are getting fed up with their jobs and the constant pressure of having to perform miracles with increasingly limited funds, pay, and accolades. “With the state of the economy, and IT departments having to do more with less, we have seen an uptick in the number of IT [...]
How Google’s Marissa Mayer Manages Burnout
By: Joseph Walker Burnout isn’t the result of too much work. It’s the result of not getting what you want. So says Google Vice President Marissa Mayer, 36, the company’s first female software engineer and its 20th employee when she joined the company in 1999. In her first five years at Google, she pulled at [...]
Burnout (From Securosis Blog)
I feel fortunate that I’m not haunted by the images of what I have witnessed. If I don’t sleep well at night it’s due to stress at work or at home, not dark images from the years I spent working in emergency services. I realize I sometimes abuse my past as a paramedic in my [...]
Public Service Announcement – Stress and Burnout in the InfoSec Community
by SHAWNA TURNER-RICE A week ago, to kick off RSA, there was a Professional Development Track Session (PROF-001) on the topic of stress and burnout in the Information Security industry. One of the comments made at the track was that if you do a Google search on this topic, nothing comes back. That’s something that’s easy to [...]
The real cost of burnout
By Ken Simper: The key to performance in an organisation is the relationship between each individual and his or her immediate manager. If the attrition is as high as 20 per cent, why and how much should you spend on training? Simply put, training is investment in getting more and better quality work from your [...]
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