Burnout Bot

Automated, noise-free burnout prevention in Slack

4.8•4 reviews•

263 followers

Automated, noise-free burnout prevention in Slack

4.8•4 reviews•

263 followers

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Burnout Bot surfaces insights, action plans, and suggestions to address burnout on teams, all on Slack. Recs are based on team behavior (not noisy surveys). Users get analytics on work sustainability+other fun features like inspo for high quality breaks.

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Launch tags:Productivity•Artificial Intelligence•Human Resources

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Hi PH! We are IN AWE of this crew of hustlers, and excited to offer a new burnout prevention app to support some of the hardest working folks in tech. FYI - Burnout is not a mental health problem. The root causes of burnout are all management issues: high workload, insufficient resources/rewards, lack of trust in leadership, to name a few examples. Addressing these typically requires a lot of effort and skills from managers - until now. Burnout Bot automates burnout prevention in Slack. It analyzes team behavior and provides managers and individual contributors with actionable tips to help improve their team’s culture. For example, Burnout Bot may recommend switching live meetings to asynchronous document reviews or may flag that your team is overdue for a team building event. Managers can also see live analytics for work sustainability and engagement. The best part about Burnout Bot is that it’s noise-free. No pulse checks or surveys. No touchy-feely recommendations to take a deep breath or meditate more. It works because it actually moves the needle on what’s going on in your specific team. Burnout Bot also has some super fun features like inspo for high quality breaks or vacations and sharing learning tidbits from the latest research. We’re also building in a suite of AI features and expanding to include integration with Zoom, email, calendar, and more. We’d love to keep in touch! Our team was founded at UC Berkeley and has grown to include folks all over - Bay Area, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and even Buenos Aires! We’ve all burnt out in previous roles as engineers, product managers, researchers, management consultants, and more. We are inspired by the latest research on burnout and want to scale and automate those learnings for teams. We work with world-class advisors with backgrounds in management science, cognitive science, and performance science that guide our work. Privacy is a top priority for us, and Burnout Bot was built with the individual contributor’s best interest in mind. Don’t worry - we’ll never tell your manager how many hours you are working! Try it out and let us know what you think. Thank you PH fam! Learn more: burnoutbot.com Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company...

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3yr ago

@yannell_selman It is so inspiring to see burnout research and the realities of work come together in Burnout Bot! I am proud of the work the team has done to create a product that focuses on the root causes of burnout and actually provides managers with real insights and practical, tailored solutions!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@yannell_selman so thrilled and grateful to PH for this opportunity to highlight Burnout Bot! Really great summary of the problem space and how Burnout Bot is helping to solve burnout for teams. I can't wait to expand on the already great product we've built. In the future, we'll leverage AI and ML to enhance the feature set substantially, providing huge amounts of value to teams by truly helping them predict and prevent burnout. We're only just getting started!!! For anyone who cares about burnout, retention, and well-being, please sign up or follow us to keep tabs on new features we'll be shipping!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@johnny_stones Yes! The more we can scale research-based insights, the better off teams will be!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@bedford_west Just getting started is right! Can’t wait to introduce our AI feature set to accelerate impact for teams. 🔑🔑🔑

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3yr ago

@yannell_selman this could not come at a better time as both employees and teams continue to grapple with questions around future of work 🎊

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3yr ago

💎 Pixel perfection

🎉 Working with this amazing team to create a product that promotes workplace sustainability has been an absolute delight! 💪 What sets Burnout Bot apart is its ability to analyze team behavior and provide actionable tips without any noisy interruptions. 🤫 But you know what my absolute favorite feature is? 🌟 It's the "Browse Breaks" option! 🏖️🌳 It's such a brilliant way to discover new and exciting ways to recharge and rejuvenate outside of work. 🌞 Trust me, Burnout Bot is a game-changer!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@johnny_stones yessssss, love the excitement and it's been such a pleasure working with you!!!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@johnny_stones I love "browse breaks" so much! Yesterday I saw a rec to go to the SF Botanical Garden and it made me realize just how long it's been since I've been there, even though it's my favorite place! Now I'm thinking about how I might make that a priority when my family comes to visit in a few months.

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3yr ago

💎 Pixel perfection

This seems to be a huge home run for keeping morale high. Back when I was in Corporate America, I wish I had a tool like this. Being able to give feedback on what is driving our burnout is key. One of the reasons I finally left corporate life, started traveling the world, and started WITY TRAVELS, is because the only resources we were given for feedback were noisy surveys that were vague and never made a difference. I believe that Burnout Bot will be a difference maker for retention in organizations. Keep up the good work!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@willwilliams3 Appreciate the encouraging feedback! 100% agree - those engagement surveys are too infrequent, too long, and not targeted enough. Would love to learn more about WITY TRAVELS - we have a concept around "High Quality Time-Off" on our team that emphasizes getting physical, emotional, and cognitive distance from work. This helps with maximizing work recovery on off hours! Travel is definitely a big part of that! Thanks for sharing.

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@willwilliams3 thank you so much! So excited for you and your decision to travel the world! WITY TRAVELS really seems like a dream opportunity to lean into what you love. We agree, surveys are noisy and don't do enough to actually prevent burnout before it happens! We really think we've landed on an approach that will help managers, HR, and leadership identify signals before they become burnout problems and then act on those signals quickly.

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3yr ago

@willwilliams3 you’re so right, pinpointing what’s driving burnout is crucial and Burnout Bot absolutely helps individuals, teams, and companies better understand what’s really at the root.

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3yr ago

@willwilliams3 Couldn't agree more! Getting out of the office can really help create some distance from our daily work demands. And cheers on your next venture

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3yr ago

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This looks really cool! I saw the pricing starts at $5/mo - how does it work? Is it per slack workspace? Or based on number of users in the slack workspace?

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@britt_joiner Great question! It's free for 60 days. After that, we're offering BB for $5/team within a workspace for a limited time. Later this year, we are transitioning to $5/user pricing model, so it is helpful to lock in the current rate. By "team" we mean any person within the workspace that will want access to their own dashboard for analytics and feedback. Typically how it works is: -A manager or HR will add Burnout Bot to the workspace -Manager/HR will pick a channel to add Burnout Bot to -Burnout Bot will assume that people on that channel are part of one "team" -The manager/HR person that added Burnout Bot to that channel will get feedback from that team and also be able to see analytics on work trends. That person would pay $5/month for that channel/team. -Later this year, managers/HR will have to pay $5/user in that channel. Feel free to schedule time with us if you want to chat through how you can pilot on your team! https://calendly.com/cultiveit/c...

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3yr ago

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Such an important problem to solve—congrats on the launch! I love that the product is integrated into the work flow for the managers & members, instead of having something completely new to have to remember/keep track of! I'm curious about the types of case studies & success stories on an individual level, if you're willing to share? E.g. this situation happened, how BB helped, etc.!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@christal Great callouts! A bit part of the value is being based in real team behavior so that Burnout Bot only intervenes when needed (vs. traditional solutions that require noisy pulse checks or infrequent engagement surveys). We've heard from managers that the 'set it and forget it' nature of the product is ideal for them too. Their team can get support when they need it without managers having to constantly check in or worry. Re: case studies, I personally had a fun experience yesterday with Burnout Bot! In prepping for the PH launch, I was online hustling every day - trying to keep up my streak, building up our follower base, etc. Yesterday, I got a notification from Burnout Bot notifying me that it had be 2+ weeks since I had taken a full day off of work. 😅 BB gave me recs for things to do this weekend to disconnect, including one recommendation to go to a fancy tea room! I didn't know SF (where I live) has fancy tea rooms, and I made plans with some friends to go on Saturday. I'm super excited to dress up, have fancy snacks, and get to connect with my community this weekend, and take a FULL DAY OFF. 🤗

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3yr ago

@christal 🎉 Thank you so much! 🙌 It's super exciting to hear your positive feedback! 😊 We really wanted to make things easier for everyone involved, so integrating the product into existing workflows was a top priority. 🔄 No extra hassle, just seamless productivity! 💪💼

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3yr ago

| Bonus: Feel free to ask a burnout-related question in the comments and we'll get you a research-based answer! I've always worked on (and managed) smaller teams, usually two to four ICs. With only a few people, it isn't hard to match the feedback to the author. This often ends means that the less-confident voices — particularly H1-B holders, women, and new hires — self-censor and we only get feedback from, well, 30-year-old white dudes who like to talk. Less-formal feedback channels like this definitely help. In your experience, what are other ways that this skew be avoided (or at least mitigated)?

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3yr ago

and yes I realize the irony of posting this as a 30-year-old white dude who likes to talk

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@jtbg really fantastic question! I love how you called out the discrepancy in levels of participation we see in providing feedback between folks in underrepresented demographics and those who are not. Ultimately, you can't rely on feedback alone and must recognize feedback might be skewed by this effect. One way to mitigate this is by providing other mechanisms to measure the thing you are hoping to learn about from the feedback. For example, if your goal is to discover if members of your team are experiencing symptoms of burnout, you can treat feedback as only one of many independent variables. One of our primary use cases for Burnout Bot is to do exactly this. We want to help collect some of these independent variables for you in an automated, low-touch, un-intrusive way! As an example, we can collect data points around employees working unsustainable schedules where they aren't taking breaks and use that as an indicator of potential burnout. One other great way to address the concern about feedback is to provide safer mechanisms for those with underrepresented identities to participate. The research tells us employee resource groups (ERGs) are one approach which has been successful with this! One of our research tips we provide through Burnout Bot talks about this and links to a great article about it here: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/ne... Hope that helps, and thanks for the great question!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@jtbg using your voice to support and empower those in underrepresented demographics is a great way to help! So happy you asked such a great question and brought visibility to this topic!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@jtbg Yes! Bedford covered it mostly, but I’ll just add that this is the #1 thing we hear from individual contributors about Burnout Bot - they do not wants verbatim feedback shared. That’s why we NEVER share verbatim feedback with the manager or leadership, we only share solutions to the problems identified. On the equity question, with small teams, it’s usually easier for outspoken folks from majority groups to give feedback verbally. Like Bedford said, BB provides a different channel for folks who may not be comfortable giving that feedback directly or who may want to process feedback in writing to submit. This is super important for managers with a small team. I also love this article on building a culture of feedback - multiple channels/approaches is key! 🔑 https://hbr.org/2013/12/building...

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3yr ago

Congrats on the launch!🚀 Love that Burnout Bot is grounded in research, and responds to team behavior with actionable tips. Is there a MS Teams version/add in coming soon? 🤞

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@kelly_ss Thanks so much! Not yet but that is an integration we are rapidly pursuing, as we know there are many people doing all their work on Teams! 🙌🙏 Appreciate the callout - will make a note for our product team!

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3yr ago

Burnout Bot

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@kelly_ss thank you so much! MS Teams is definitely on the list of integrations we plan to add in the future! Appreciate the support for how we're grounded in research - definitely something we think differentiates us!

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3yr ago

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Burnout Bot is praised for its meaningful purpose and effectiveness in addressing burnout through Slack. Users appreciate its focus on work sustainability analytics and actionable insights based on team behavior. The tool is noted for being grounded in research and providing a seamless experience without relying on surveys. Feedback highlights its affordability and utility in the remote/hybrid work era, with users expressing interest in potential expansions to other platforms like MS Teams. Overall, Burnout Bot is well-received for its innovative approach to managing workplace well-being.

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