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Burnout is at an all-time high as employees face ever-increasing productivity expectations while being forced to do more with less. Approximately 82% of employees are at risk of burnout this year, and 95% say their emotional state plays a big part in their productivity. The research underscores the importance of happy, healthy employees–and while it might seem like simple altruism at the corporate level, there are real financial consequences of letting well-being fall by the wayside. Most notably, burnout costs employers as much as $300B annually.

Today, while most research centers on the burnout of knowledge workers at large, one subset group is faring worse than others: software developers. These teams are the foundation of nearly every modern company, and research shows they’ve been stretched thin to the point of crisis. Solving developer burnout must become a top priority for organizations, or they risk losing the very engine that powers their progress.

Burnout: By The Numbers

According to Harness’ State of the Developer Experience Report, relentless workloads are the leading cause of burnout in the software industry and are the primary reason most developers quit. Over half (52%) of developers cite burnout as the main factor driving their peers to leave their jobs. One of the primary causes of burnout is developer toil: the prevalence of manual, repetitive tasks that consume significant time and effort without providing significant value to the business. The report found that nearly half of developers say they can’t release code to production without risking failures. If that code does need to be rolled back, an astounding 67% of developers do so manually.

The problem is exacerbated by scope creep, which almost two-thirds (62%) of developers experience. To keep up with their workload, nearly a quarter (23%) of engineers work overtime at least 10 days a month, and 97% of developers admit to context switching, meaning they move between unrelated tasks throughout the day, further reducing their productivity.

Additionally, hiring isn’t helping quickly enough, as organizations struggle to onboard new hires quickly enough to alleviate the pressure on current employees. The report found that 71% of respondents said onboarding takes at least two months, leaving existing engineering teams to shoulder the extra workload in the interim.

Solving the Developer Burnout Crisis

While the challenges are steep, there are numerous ways to circumvent these problems and ultimately improve developer mental health:

Automate Toil

Automating toil refers to the process of leveraging technology to eliminate repetitive, mundane, and time-consuming tasks, freeing up human resources for more strategic and creative endeavors. By implementing advanced software that automates monotonous tasks, such as code rollbacks, organizations can enhance efficiency, reduce the risk of errors, and improve overall productivity. This approach not only streamlines workflows but also enables employees to focus on higher-value activities that require critical thinking and innovation. Consequently, automating toil is a key strategy for leaders looking to optimize DevOps while improving the employee experience.

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In response to rapidly changing workplace needs, many companies launched into scaling up their tech stacks and providing employees with new tools that promised greater efficiency, improved productivity, and a better digital experience. Research shows, however, that 40% of employees and 44% of executives believe that employees are either somewhat or significantly over-provisioned by tech at work. As a result, workplaces now are grappling with an abundance of tools that were poorly matched both to employees’ needs and to specific workplace challenges.

The underlying disconnect is this: companies focused too much on providing new equipment to teams in an attempt to make broad, sweeping improvements in productivity or to accelerate business transformations. In turn, they fell short of providing the right equipment to the right employee at the right time.

Determine benchmarks to prepare for scaling.

Organizations looking to scale and grow need clear markers of success long before they level up their investment in IT systems to prevent too large of an investment or too little preparation. Setting benchmarks is essential. Companies can achieve this step by comparing historical trends based on data instead of guesswork. This must happen alongside real-time data for a full picture of the digital employee experience (that is, each employee’s experience with the tech stack allocated to them—whether good or bad).

Context around certain IT moves and decisions, as well as the impact of those moves on workplace productivity and performance, is crucial for enabling strategic planning. For instance, it’s possible to parcel data into meaningful, informative sets based on the workplace environment (hybrid or remote), the employee experience with the digital tools they need for their roles, and the systems used.

Benchmarks will be critical for growth planning, including any M&A plans on the docket, enterprise-wide system integrations (such as EMR rollouts for healthcare organizations), or widespread software updates. Armed with easily-digestible benchmark data, IT teams can sort out any issues ahead of an influx of talent, system mergers, and digital transformation projects.

In these scenarios, IT leaders can emerge as true business heroes, instead of the old days when the “IT hero” was associated with reactively saving a company from extended downtime. The IT executives’ ability to tie downtime, latency, and systems issues (and more) to the business’s bottom line—based on data-informed calculations—will elevate strategic planning. The monetary value of an organization’s IT health is rapidly increasing as companies look to eliminate redundancies, streamline workflows, and create better digital employee experiences. Up until now, measuring the baseline of IT health—and tying that baseline to a financial tally—has been cumbersome and inefficient. Now, IT leaders can determine the issues affecting productivity through a single dashboard of a digital experience platform, enabling companies to quickly measure the impact of software, hardware, and network issues on workplace productivity, in turn immediately remedying any issues.

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