Work withdrawal is a destructive consequence of unhappiness, and it emerged often among the responses. Work withdrawal is a family of behaviors that is defined as employees’ attempts to remove themselves, either temporarily or permanently, from daily work tasks. We found varying degrees of work withdrawal, ranging from switching to another task (“[…] You spend like two hours investigating on Google for a similar issue and how it was resolved, you find nothing, and desperation kicks in.”) to considering quitting developing software (“I really start to doubt myself and question whether I’m fit
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