Autora: Lorena Sánchez Osorio
What's the relationship between burnout and data?
I'll try to explain it in the simplest way possible and also share why for me it's important to combine life and data.
To start, I'll pose a simple question to employees in large corporations: Is staying late every day due to analyzing data or generating reports? Let me rephrase the question: How much time is needed to obtain reliable and relevant information for organizations? Is it 20% of your time? Is it 80% of your time? I'll leave this question hanging and answer it at the end of the text.
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Now, if you're a senior executive in a large corporation, let me ask: Do you receive information on time? Do you know what happens with your team when you need data? If you hire professionals solely to generate data, let me tell you that you're wasting valuable resources in your company. If you dedicate more than 20% of your employee's time to grind data, believe me, it's not the right approach. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should fire your collaborator or that they should resign; I'm saying they would add more value by utilizing all their expertise in analyzing an automated report.
This brief analysis of the corporate world might reveal the impact of your data demands on your employees. This might not concern you until that person becomes exhausted and decides to leave, resulting in the loss of knowledge and acquired experience. Who knows, they might even take it to your competition.
However, in an ideal world, what would be the perfect job for this and all generations? A job where they can apply everything they've learned in their careers and improve day by day. You, as a manager, could provide this to any worker if your data processes were well-established. I know, it's utopian, but I can help you make it a reality. Let me explain how: In this ideal world, people would understand the importance of the data they input and treat it with the care expected from such a valuable asset. Department heads would allocate the necessary time for their teams to consciously generate information within the system, following the guidelines provided by the systems department, which would play a strategic role in setting information guidelines. This way, you'd effortlessly receive the requested report and also have the analysis from your team's perspective. And even more impressive, everyone would have a life after work.
After this context, I answer the question: What's the relationship between data and burnout? As you might have deduced throughout this text, the relationship is close. We agree that data is the gold of our generation, but we still have polluting and challenging processes to work with this treasure. And is it a sustainable process? It isn't. Mental health has made it clear to us in every possible way that it isn't.
So, will we continue believing today that data is an isolated issue, a product of a hidden systems department in our organization? Or do we believe that the actors involved in data management and generation can find value in turning the organization into a data-centric organization?
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Burnout and Data