This site satirically explores burnout and repetitive-compulsive gestures in white-collar design work. It explores physiologies of stress, the fine attunements our bodies make to become appendages of our machines, and the small gestures and affective flatness that make up various (literal) postures of capitalism.

The site parodies the form of a Worker's Repetitive Strain Injury (Upper Limbs) Questionnaire. Retitled as “Burnout Progress Report,” my form combines questions from the original questionnaire with questions from production worker, graphic designer, and senior design engineer interview templates I found online; reworded titles from articles about the limits of human endurance; and a few questions of my own.

The key conceit of the site is exaggeration: users can only navigate through it by tediously performing the very same carpal tunnel-inducing gestures that the site critiques (clicking, aimlessly moving around the mouse, typing, and scrolling). The user's interactions literally set in motion corresponding stock footage of white-collar design work, such that the videos only advance with the user's repeated gesture and come to a standstill without it.