We no longer present the syndrome of professional exhaustion, commonly called burnout: according to a recent study, one in five employees would be affected by this form of exhaustion, which spares no one.
But now a new syndrome appears: bore out or burnout by boredom. The concept is not entirely new. It was described in 2010 in an article in the International Journal of Epidemiology of Oxford (Great Britain) entitled “Bored to death”. This article pointed out that people who are bored in their work have three times the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Today, this new disease worries occupational risk prevention professionals because it tends to affect more and more people. Not just workers who don’t have enough work, but also those who have to perform tasks that are meaningless or for which they are overqualified. Boron out is said to be the cause of many depressions, significant fatigue, and loss of self-esteem. But boredom can also, in the long term, reduce life expectancy. In any case, this is what British researchers say, who have followed more than 7,000 people for 25 years, and discovered that boredom doubles the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular disease.
While the burn out is about to be recognized as an occupational disease, the bore out is just starting to get talked about. But both share the same warning signs: fatigue, anxiety, sleep disorders, digestive disorders, physical pain, deterioration of self-esteem. Signs not to be overlooked and which should not be hesitated to speak to the occupational physician to find ways to get out of it.
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