Work-Life Balance
Explore how to foster a healthy work-life balance within tech teams as a manager. Understand strategies to protect your team from burnout by establishing cultural norms that value efficiency, respect personal time, and encourage asynchronous communication. Learn to lead by example and create an environment where focused work and balanced lives coexist.
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As technology has eaten the world, many companies that have created that technology have also eaten their people. We’re all influenced by the practices and celebrated successes of the tech giants that we see publicized in our industry, and those celebrated successes are the “unicorns,” the 10x rebels. They promote hustling hard, being disruptive, and vacuuming talent and competitors in a race to become the dominant force in the market.
We read books, watch podcasts, follow influential business people on Twitter, and slowly move the norm toward working more and more. The technology industry is obsessed with growth. Valuations of companies are typically driven by their revenue and their year-on-year growth percentage. VCs push founders and their boards to deliver ...