Weird angle. Isn't the actual story the high levels of burnout in developers, rather than the inconvenience this creates for recruiters? The article is more balanced, but why lead with this?
I cringe every time I hear people celebrate the price of housing going up. Due to financialization we have an economy predicated on the necessities of life becoming increasingly expensive. I fantasize about the opposite; ubiquitous low cost quality housing available to even the most destitute. Sometimes I feel we're in Idiocracy and we're watering plants with Brawndo and wondering why the crops are dying.
Actually, when a company announces layoffs, its stock tends to rise (unless it's in such a bad shape that even major "cost cutting" can't make the punters more optimistic).
I have never heard of worklife.news before, but it seems to be a site more targeted at managers, recruiters, HR folks, and the like. Not surprising or even necessarily bad that they would frame a headline to highlight the story's connection to its audience.
Well; a both cynical and charitable take: We the techies do fun techie things in the service of business. As such, developer burnout is a proxy impact, and inability of business to advance business goals is a final impact :-/.
(Basically, daily I'm training my ops managers team that when they update directors/executives, impact is not "Process XYZ inadvertently set up flag ABC on table QEW due to lockwait timeout", but "300 employees had their union dues incorrectly deducted" )
I mean, if this were real, and this actually created a 'crisis' for recruiters, then this would be a great thing for them. Given that hiring is slowing down, and all.