'I walk into the room and I see the risk of burnout,' HSBC IT head

Charlie Walters: 'How do I help those teams and those people to recognise that they're trying too hard?'

John Leonard
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'I walk into the room and I see the risk of burnout,' HSBC IT head
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'I walk into the room and I see the risk of burnout,' HSBC IT head

"Sometimes I walk into the room and I see the risk of burnout." said Charlie Walters, head of engineering, foundation technology in WPB at HSBC.

 "It's the guys who are perhaps not in the roles that aren't most suited to them." She was speaking at Computing's Women in Tech Festival yesterday, where she addressed the importance of teamwor...

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