Tag: burnout
Cybersecurity burnout hits APAC firms, with lack of resources the key challenge
Nearly 60% of workers believe AI could help prevent burnout
Asus updates warranty policy for AM5 motherboards after Ryzen burnout fiasco
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Last month, several people using Ryzen 7000X3D processors in their systems reported their CPUs were burning out for no apparent reason. The problem turned out to be related to poorly-tested BIOS releases that companies like MSI and Asus released as “stable” versions even though they were causing AM5 processors to…
Incline Face Up Straight Bar Front Raise (Shoulder Burnout!)
Pacific Drive: Acura for survival burnout that Dodges tradition
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In a month stacked with some absolute bangers, it’s Pacific Drive, a first person car-focused survival game, that has me excited above all else. I, as well as other press outlets, got an early look late last week, so hop in the passenger seat and let me take you for a ride.
Pacific Drive appears to approach the survival genre, one where you must venture out over and over again to scavenge supplies, escape from treacherous forces, and ultimately uncover what’s going on around you, entirely from the driver’s seat of an American Station Wagon. The whole game revolves around your car. It’s more of a character than you are, a representation of your progression and style, and the star of the show. It’s a paranormal road trip more than a base builder like Rust.
The gameplay loop goes as follows. You start off in your garage, a refuge from the dangers of the Pacific Northwest and all its dangers. Once you’ve fixed up your car as much as possible, you head to the map and speed off towards one of the many dangerous spots across the forested wild in a dangerous and potentially lucrative adventure.
Amazon’s Internal Study of Its Culture in 2021 Found ‘Stress, Burnout, Churn’
An official Amazon study run as part of the company’s “Earth’s Best Employer” initiative showed mounting employee frustration and other challenges around the time the crucial project was getting off the ground…. The 11-page document, created in October 2021 for Amazon’s most senior leaders, gives a brutally honest assessment of employee sentiment…. “We learned we are not seen as distinctively innovative and that our innovation culture is not fun. Innovation at Amazon is associated with stress, burnout, churn, and a cut-throat atmosphere,” the document said….
A competitive labor market was one of the main drivers for change, according to the report. Amazon anticipated a “tech talent shortage” of 6 million to 8 million workers in the US by 2030. The Amazon Web Services cloud business alone was projected to need 210,000 to 336,000 tech employees by 2031, or at least 123,000 additional workers. Yet, Amazon is not perceived as a particularly attractive workplace even by its own employees, the report found. Corporate employees said they were subject to long hours and exhausting workloads. Sometimes, even finding answers to trivial HR policies led to confusion. For frontline workers, Amazon wants to provide more behavioral health support and reduce injuries like musculoskeletal disorders, which are more common at its warehouses than other similar facilities .
“Neither corporate nor front-line employees feel Amazon is a place they can clearly grow their careers and achieve personal success,” the report stated.
The report identified six areas where Amazon sees room for improvement, including work-life balance and compensation and benefits.
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66% of Cybersecurity Analysts Experienced Burnout This Year, Report Finds
This research comes not only as the cyber skills gap continues to grow, but also as organizations continue to single out individuals and teams as responsible for breaches. Most (88%) security professionals report they believe a blame culture exists somewhat in the industry, with 38% in the U.S. seeing such a culture as “heavily prevalent.” With so many security professionals being held responsible for breaches, it’s no surprise that many resort to working overtime to try and keep their organizations safe — at great cost to their own mental health.
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