[zerognowl]

Is it so bad that productivity grinds to a halt like this? I can understand if your employer has Henry Ford posters on the wall to keep workers productive, but sometimes the best work is done when a worker gets home, as if home is some precious thing that is forcibly denied, because it represents a reward, and that the reward of work is only represented as enjoying the spoils of your labor at home.

This is, for want of better phrasing, the rat race, and quickly being swapped out for better work-life balance, increasingly being lambasted, and seen as generally not ideal for more and more people.

Burnout is such a catch-all term these days and is usually a word associated with the more negative aspects of 9 to 5 culture. It's not a word in the vocabulary of high-performing people. High performance is not especial to 9 to 5 culture, or especial to those who have grit. High performance can be seen in unpaid work, or in work that feels more like work, simply because, there are different types of work, like body work, mind work, etc