I am really sad this didnt have sports and hobby/life in it as its very important heres my tips after 5 years of stressful growth company management would be following and is the following to my employees:
- Dont cut the flow state in cold turkey as then you just lie in bed and die rather start by lowering the work hours first to closer to 37,5h or less if possible
- Start exercising sports that remove you from your phone so for example swimming is great as it forces you to be alone with your head and carrying a phone to pool is hard.
- Never work during a weekend. I do it you do it, everyone of us does it in IT but you really need at least a day per week to do something completely different.
- Weekend getaways, I go to no electricity cabins, sailing etc. away from notifications so you really cant work.
- Kill notifications, NO ONE will die if you dont answer to slack message in 5 minutes you can still check slack every hour or so or mail just kill toxic notifications and keep the evening at your own pace.
- fix your monitoring. Application downtime monitoring should be helping your mental health not harming.
- Make friends outside work. They have completely different view to the world which helps you with above