{"id":505,"date":"2017-05-12T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T09:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-05-31T00:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:06:21","slug":"employee-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/employee-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"By the Numbers: Who’s Burnt Out in Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland, Ore., is home to great beer, delicious coffee and bike-friendly roadways, but it\u2019s also home to some of the most burnt out workers in tech. <\/span><\/p>\n

The eco-friendly city, whose burgeoning roster of tech companies has earned it the nickname of the Silicon Forest, ranked No. 1 for employee burnout according to <\/span>data<\/span><\/a> compiled by <\/span>Comparably<\/span><\/a> as of May 30. The data came from responses by more than 5,000 U.S. workers in the tech industry and included 15 major U.S. cities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sixty-one percent of respondents in Portland described themselves as burnt out. That\u2019s higher than the average of about 50% nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Portland was followed next by Phoenix (56%), Denver (54%) and New York (52%). San Francisco, often considered the pressure cooker of America\u2019s tech scene, ranked No. 9 out of the 15 cities on the list: 48% of the respondents there claim they feel burnt out by their work. <\/span><\/p>\n

The cities where workers reported the least burnout were Salt Lake City, Chicago, and Austin (all at 46%).<\/p>\n

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Burnout gets worse as careers progress<\/b><\/p>\n

Work burnout can take many forms, but is generally described as a state of chronic mental and emotional stress that makes it harder to make decisions and get motivated. The rate of it generally increases as people move further into their careers: 42% of entry-level workers experienced work burnout compared to 51% of workers a decade or more into their career, according to Comparably.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Design workers report highest burnout<\/b><\/p>\n

People who work in design, marketing, and customer support reported the highest rates of burnout, according to the data. Those in HR and executive roles reported the lowest.<\/p>\n

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Worst burnout rates: women in marketing, men in design<\/b><\/p>\n

From a gender perspective, women in marketing and men in design reported the highest rates of burnout. Sixty-one percent of women in marketing said they were burnt out (vs. 53%\u00a0of women overall) and 55% of men in design said they were burnt out (vs. 47% of men overall).<\/p>\n

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Burnout\u00a0is less of an issue in older age<\/b><\/p>\n

From an age perspective, work burnout remained mostly steady near 50% until age 51, when it begins to drop off. For workers age 61 to 65, it was around 44% and for workers age 66+, it was around 31%.<\/p>\n

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For more insights, check out the full query\u00a0here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portland, Ore., is home to great beer, delicious coffee and bike-friendly roadways, but it\u2019s also home to some of the most burnt out workers in tech. The eco-friendly city, whose burgeoning roster of tech companies has earned it the nickname of the Silicon Forest, ranked No. 1 for employee burnout according to data compiled by … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[47,49,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}