You’re doing too much
“Do more with less” puts you on a path to burnout. But is there a path out?
Just do less
The only way out of this mess is to do less. But that doesn’t mean you do worse in the process. Because that wouldn’t feel any better than the current situation.
Let’s be real. You probably got this job because you were good at a completely different job. You’re being asked to manage more tasks and people with fewer resources. Your best employees are burning out, and can you blame them? It’s a lot.
- Managers oversee 3x as many people as they did in 2017
- Managers have 51% more responsibilities than they can effectively manage
- 59% of managers report spending a significant amount of time on “work to do work”
- Managers spend an annual average of 210 hours on performance management—nearly 30 days out of the year
- 1 in 5 current managers would prefer not to be a people manager, if they had a choice
The really messed up thing is that software has been promising to help us be more productive for decades—but the companies building this stuff have only made it worse. By a lot. Our lives are noisier and busier than ever.
But, what if something out there just helped us all do less?
Ancient humans didn’t invent tools so they could spend more time hunting and harvesting. They invented tools to make things faster and easier, so they could do less and get more for it. That was what real innovation used to be about. That, and not dying by wooly mammoth attack.
So, what if we found our way back to meaningful innovation by building tools to make things easier, better, faster, more simple, and, maybe, just a little more fun?
That’s Textio. We make it radically easier to be a great manager and not burn out.
Our AI tools don’t just automate busywork to generate words faster. They eliminate routine tasks so you can actually read less, write less, do less, and focus on what matters; your people.
We keep hearing from managers that feedback is one of the hardest, most stressful parts of the job. So, today, we make feedback easier for you to give and get right. Soon, you’ll get even more magical moments from Textio—more ways to do less and be better.
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Managers who do less get theDL—an email that could be a whole damn meeting, if we weren’t trying to end meetings. A newsletter that’s all TL;DR, and none of the other stuff. Just give us your work email, please.
IYKYK
Live, laugh, love being a manager. JK. We’re not miracle workers. We can’t make you love it, but we can make it easier, better, and more fun. In the meantime, here’s the corporate equivalent of your favorite cat videos.
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