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The reality of WFH – Uplevel users reveal what’s happening at work
We analyzed the Uplevel user base to see what’s happened since March across Deep Work, meetings, PR throughput and burnout risk. What we saw: Your employees are working harder than ever and need help avoiding burnout. We’re here to help.
Burnout isn’t a personal problem—it’s a company problem
There’s no way around it: you can only work so much until you burn out. Perhaps due to the business mantra of “infinite growth,” organizations often expect that employees will work at their maximum capacity. Forever. However, high performance is not a static state—it’s cyclical, requiring alternating seasons of rest.
Developer Tea podcast: Interview with Ravs Kaur on leadership & management
Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence.
Reduce interruptions (and get work done) with these Slack hacks
If in-person conversations and email combined, they would create the communication icon that is Slack. The messaging app describes itself with confidence: “It's faster, better organized, and more secure than email.” It’s no surprise that over 750,000 companies use it.
Building empathy in a year of distance
Regardless of your new normal—or however long it’s been since you even thought of the word “normal”—every engineering team has experienced significant change this year.
Back to school: How to support parents during remote learning
We’re not going back to normal, but we’re still going back to school. This academic year will be unlike any other, with many parents working at home while introducing their kindergarteners to Zoom.
Greater Than Code podcast: Interview with Uplevel CTO Ravs Kaur
Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology.