Our entire product team has been working 60-hour weeks for eight months and we all keep saying it's temporary but nobody will admit that we've normalized this and we're all afraid to be the first one to say we can't sustain it. I watch everyone else seeming to handle it fine and wonder if I'm the weak link, but I also see the quality of our work declining and our relationships with each other getting more transactional.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group has collectively created conditions they individually cannot sustain, but the shared fiction of temporary sacrifice prevents honest examination of the costs.
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Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
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