Great Resignation? Tech Workers Try a Great Reconsideration Instead
WiredErnest Ogbuanya spent the pandemic working from his home in Virginia, near Amazon’s HQ2, supporting the Amazon Web Services network. But if you're sitting at home and you don’t have access to the micro kitchen, the barista, the massages, then what really is separating this job from another job?” Merker runs a conference for site reliability engineers, and says many people in that line of work have been burnt out by the demands of keeping platforms up and running in the pandemic. That’s cool, but man, it’s killing me.’” “You’ve got people saying, ‘Now that I think about it, I have a bullshit job,’” says Joseph B. Fuller, who coleads the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School. “You’ve got people saying, ‘Now that I think about it, I have a bullshit job.’” Joseph B. Fuller, the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School For some, well-being includes less time spent on toilsome tasks and fewer nights and weekends on call. Working across several time zones “prevents us from having a standard ‘I’m on call day and night’ rotation,” he says.
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