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Even OpenAI could not escape burnout: What the shutdown says about younger tech employees dealing with 80-hour weeks
In a transfer that’s as shocking as it’s revealing, OpenAI, one of many world’s most influential synthetic intelligence labs, introduced a compulsory one-week company-wide shutdown beginning this July. Whereas on the floor, it would appear to be a beneficiant summer time break, insiders say the actual motive is burnout. Staff have reportedly been clocking 80-hour…