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It's your job as a manager to inspire your team.

Cultivate their professional growth, give them opportunities to learn and grow and expand their skillset. Allow them to work across realms, for example let a backend develop fix something on the mobile codebase. Novelty works as a quick fix and as a pick me up.

I manage a team of 8 engineers and recently we've started doing friday potlucks where each person after lunch picks a ticket from the backlog. Tiny things that need to get done and we just never do kind of stuff. The idea is they get a breather from a large, mentally taxing ticket and head off into the weekend with a win under their belt and their load off their mind. It's not like going home on friday with your huge ticket weighing you down.

Try it out, everybody on my team loves it.