Slightly tangential to the question and the other great answers so far:
One thing we do as an organization is to have an explicit "no butt in seat" policy, where folks are encouraged to just get the hell offline if they aren't feeling it today and come back refreshed. Rather than sitting around and waiting out the clock.
And it's something that needs to be reminded on and reinforced, because it's hard to muster up the courage to get offline and do other things.
This is not exactly useful advice if you have no control over these things, but depending on your situation, you might want to ask your manager about this sort of thing. Everyone understands the feeling of sitting in a chair not being productive, so if you talk about it the right way, you can maybe make it a thing.
This is good policy. If you want long term results then being able to take actual breaks is important.
For creatives, getting most of your input from the recycled Internet at desk, will impact your results.
Your falling standards will induce stress & desperation, which will make you eat sugar. The combination of stress & sugar + a dash of desperation will lead you to big creative breakthroughs.
Your team will call you genius but your health will suffer so you take it a bit easier & the standards decline again so you start to feel stress again...👀😭
That is something to definitely talk about.
I think we have to remember that it is ok and normal to feel that way, and just take time to disconnect a bit.. obviously, if it happens more often, there might be some other reasons/causes to take care of.
I was thinking, this can be a bit tricky for the managers, no? How do you make sure your engineers/developers don't abuse that policy?
Slightly tangential to the question and the other great answers so far:
One thing we do as an organization is to have an explicit "no butt in seat" policy, where folks are encouraged to just get the hell offline if they aren't feeling it today and come back refreshed. Rather than sitting around and waiting out the clock.
And it's something that needs to be reminded on and reinforced, because it's hard to muster up the courage to get offline and do other things.
This is not exactly useful advice if you have no control over these things, but depending on your situation, you might want to ask your manager about this sort of thing. Everyone understands the feeling of sitting in a chair not being productive, so if you talk about it the right way, you can maybe make it a thing.
This is good policy. If you want long term results then being able to take actual breaks is important.
For creatives, getting most of your input from the recycled Internet at desk, will impact your results.
Your falling standards will induce stress & desperation, which will make you eat sugar. The combination of stress & sugar + a dash of desperation will lead you to big creative breakthroughs.
Your team will call you genius but your health will suffer so you take it a bit easier & the standards decline again so you start to feel stress again...👀😭
That is something to definitely talk about.
I think we have to remember that it is ok and normal to feel that way, and just take time to disconnect a bit.. obviously, if it happens more often, there might be some other reasons/causes to take care of.
I was thinking, this can be a bit tricky for the managers, no? How do you make sure your engineers/developers don't abuse that policy?
Yeah it could be difficult for managers, but trust is the key for management :)
Moreover if people abuse that policy he will see it.