The Unmonitored Failure Domain: Mental Health
Talkat SREcon19 Europe/Middle East/Africa · on Wednesday, 2019-10-02· at 12:00· Track 2: The Liffey A·
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Work-related mental health spreads between coworkers and correlates with measurable harms: nearly 1 in 4 workers aged 18–35 report daily stress, 1 in 6 say mental health makes work harder, and lost productivity is estimated at $300B/year. Researchers identify four stress ingredients—novelty, unpredictability, threat to the ego, sense of control—and six burnout drivers (overload, lack of control, insufficient reward, isolation, unfairness, value conflict). Practical proposals: post-incident checklists, after-incident wellbeing surveys, toil audits, game days, and treating job satisfaction as an SLO to monitor and act on before people leave.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 4:39A snapshot
- 7:52The recipe for stress
- 12:30Common factors for burnout
- 14:19How we normally talk about destressing
- 20:26Emotional contagion
- 22:28How can we then think about our monitoring?
- 23:54Are there four golden signals around wellbeing?
- 29:22Hero syndrome
- 31:09This is my goodbye slide
