Beat Remote-Work Burnout as a Team
It’s a management problem, not a technology problem.
Shut it down.
Photographer: Bill Hinton
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Bloomberg Opinion will be running a series of features by our columnists that consider the long-term consequences of the crisis. This column is part of a package on the future of tech and innovation. For more, see Tyler Cowen on what’s next for Big Tech and Tae Kim on the rise of artificial intelligence.
People are feeling burned out. Months of uncertainty, homeschooling and strangely hard-to-decline video calls have taken their toll. Perhaps you’ve lost your ability to focus at work, and you can’t even muster the motivation to care. Maybe you just feel really, really tired. There’s a natural impulse to blame this malaise on a very obvious aspect of the new circumstances many of us are facing: technology-enabled isolation amid a global pandemic and a barrage of heartbreaking news.