boreout

Here's what I failed to consider and what makes this book important: I've been in a position where I have had so much on my plate for so long that I can no longer relate to what the authors term as "boreout".

Strategize 2009

More importantly, it's important, as a leader, to look for the signs of employee boreout and how to combat it.

Strategize 2009

Generally, there are three main types, she says. You can be burned out by being overworked and overloaded (“frenetic” burnout), but also by its opposite, “boreout”, where you may feel “consistently underchallenged or underworked”.

‘A career change saved my life’: the people who built better lives after burnout Emine Saner 2021

“Boreout is chronic boredom. That sums it up,” says Lotta Harju, an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at EM Lyon Business School, France, who has studied boreout for years.

The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work Bryan Lufkin 2022

While burnout is linked to long hours, poor work-life balance and our glamourisation of overwork, boreout happens when we are bored by our work to the point that we feel it is totally meaningless.

The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work Bryan Lufkin 2022