I wonder if the economic situation affects burnout. Managers push more to keep their jobs and protect their team. Individual team members push more of themselves to be seen as more productive. You only get productivity pushing yourself to a point .. after that is the redline zone and burnout.

This fear effect is compounded as you hear stories of bullweather employers doing hiring freezes (aka. AWS). I think we have a problem right now in tech .. too many people have been laid off to be absorbed in the same high-tech jobs. People will need to trade downwards, go to grad school, whatever. Not sure if I am missing some bright streaks of light in the cloud.