Job burnout levels are rising, particularly within IT organizations. To ease the burden on remote workers, some companies are rethinking Agile strategies. Planning and new practices can reduce the technical problems remote teams face. A year of working from home has taken a measurable toll on employees. In a fall 2020 survey of 1,500 workers that studied job burnout during the pandemic, 89% said work life was getting worse, and more than half reported increasing job demands.