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The Stages of the Great Developer Resignation — Next Stage Realisation There Is More To Life Than Work
Have you had enough yet
There are two types of people — those that think there is more to work than life and those who think there is more to life than work
The last year has seen developers resigning in great number, it didn’t seem developers were resigning but taking advantage of the increased demand for developers to get better jobs for more money.
Now we are reaching a new stage of the great resignation, developers getting off the hamster wheel of development and taking a break.
The stages of the great developer resignation
Below are the stages of the great developer resignation
- Remote working — meeting overload, burnout
- Increase in remote working leads to an increase in demand for software and an increase in demand for developers
- Developers move jobs to get better roles and better pay
- Developers take sabbaticals
Stage 1 — Covid and remote working
Covid hit the world and resulted in most developers working remotely and most other roles to work remotely. Companies quickly created software to enable as many roles as possible to work remotely.
The big change in remote working was an explosion in teams/zoom meetings. My calendar become so full of meetings that some days I struggled to find time to get lunch. I invested in some bluetooth headphones so I could get food and drinks.
The increase in meetings had a serious effect on developers, it lead to them having less time for development. The increase in meeting time and decrease in development time should have been reflected in longer deadlines on software projects (HO HO) but guess what, it wasn’t.
Is Meeting Overload the Cause of Increased Burnout in Developers?
There are several reasons remote working created an increase in developer burnout, the key ones
