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6 Ways to Beat WFH Burnout Now
The pandemic has blurred the boundaries between our work and home lives, leaving many of us exhausted, cynical, and inefficient. Here’s how we can all reboot this year. Mar 2, 2021
WE LL GIVE YOU the good news first: Surveys show that one side effect of the pandemic is that we’re all more productive.
Whoop, whoop! The bad news: Some experts think it’s because so many of us are working longer hours. American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger, Ph.D., first popularized the term
burnout in the 1970s after observing overworked staffers at a free New York City–based health clinic. He characterized burnout, the feeling of extreme fatigue, as a response to overwhelming stress and expectations. During the 2000s, the word would be used to describe any feelings of frustration, not those solely caused by job stress, e.g., election burnout, workout burnout, the list goes on. But 2020 brought a new kind of burnout, as millions of Americans
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By Lorelei Mihala
image captionFocusmate connects you, via a video call, to a stranger from somewhere else in the world
When Subrato Sarker had to start working from home due to the pandemic, he found himself struggling to stay productive while being on his own.
Help has come from a host of strangers across the world who - at the other end of a one-on-one video call - sit and silently do their work while Mr Sarker does his.
The 26-year-old software engineer from Dhaka, in Bangladesh, has hooked up with these digital buddies via a website called Focusmate.
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