“the latest financial employee to weigh in on the work-till-you-drop culture during a pandemic that’s obliterated the lines between office and home life for droves of workers. “
It has always been thus in tech.
The month before a major datacenter cutover will test anyone’s mettle. Or a major VoIP deployment etc.
Normal humans cannot do it, so they morph into...something else.
I've been in Tech for 35 years. That statement is largely true however the China Virus dramatically exacerbated the issue.
Layoff's to protect profits, offshoring, downsizing, getting riffed due to M&A activity and frankly because we in Tech with the most experience are getting older and many on the early "wave" side of retirement are leaving simply means fewer of us are pulling the load and putting in longer hours and doing more work.
That and the fact it's very difficult to find people willing to work in this economy where people are paid not to and people with the right skills just make this problem worse.
I'm living it, I know. I have two years left to work. Every day I simply mark another day off on the calendar.