Our burnout moment is a good thing
In today's WIRED Daily, we suggest that our burnout moment is a good thing and explain why Sexy Beasts assumes we're shallower than we are.
It starts with a lack of energy, which gradually builds into a sense of exhaustion. You feel an apathy towards your job, when you previously took pride in it. Cynicism sets in. Your productivity drops, or at least it feels that way. You put in more time and effort to try to compensate, but you don't feel the sense of accomplishment you used to – you just feel even more tired. You're burned out.
More than a year-and-a-half into the Covid-19 pandemic, burnout is having a moment. Having initially scrambled to adjust to the sudden upheaval of the workplace – made to switch to remote work with little or no preparation, or deemed an essential worker and asked to continue business-as-usual in highly unusual circumstances – we're perhaps only now really starting to feel the repercussions.
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