After burnoutor burnout syndrome, another syndrome has appeared in recent months: boron outor burnout from boredom.
This new disease worries occupational risk prevention professionals because it tends to affect more and more people, and more particularly employees who have to perform tasks that are of no interest or for which they are overqualified.
Four years with virtually no work to do
For the first time in France, this bore out syndrome is at the heart of a trial at the Prud’hommes. A 44-year-old perfume company employee is suing his employer for what he considers to be a form of moral harassment. He went for four years with virtually no work to do, which plunged him into severe depression and resulted in his dismissal.
The employee is now claiming from his former employer the payment of the compensatory indemnity for notice, his paid leave, as well as damages for moral harassment and nullity of the dismissal.
For the moment, official data on boron out are almost non-existent. An official figure from the Ministry of Labor which measures boredom puts the number of people who are bored at work at 43.7%, and at 73% those who are bored in meetings.
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