Swiss business consultants Philippe Rothlin and Peter Werder, Swiss business consultants noticed a common thread among workers whom their bosses tended to think were lazy.
“One might easily call them lazy,” Rothlin tells the Chicago Tribune, “but that’s not true. People suffering from boreout want to do something. They want to work, but their company won’t let them.”
Put simply, they’re bored stiff.
To answer that syndrome, Rothlin and Werder published Boreout: Overcoming Workplace Demotivation, a best-seller in Europe that’s being published in the United States in September.
In the book, they explain that managers who are reluctant to delegate tasks leave their staffers with little to do more than menial tasks. At first they kill time surfing the Web, checking e-mail, etc., but eventually they find the leisurely pace unbearable. In some minds, boreout is worse than burnout. It’s a form of underemployment that can lead to apathy and depression.
But enough on that subject. Don’t you have work to do?

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