Change Fatigue

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. Exhaustion or resistance caused by repeated organizational changes, tool migrations, reorgs, or process shifts with too little time to stabilize. In workplaces, change fatigue can make even good ideas harder to adopt.

    In plain English: Tiredness and resistance caused by too much change happening too often.

    Example: "By the third platform migration in a year, change fatigue was so high that people stopped reading rollout docs and started waiting for someone else to summarize the impact."

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