After burn out, or burnout syndrome, another syndrome has appeared in recent months: the bore outor burnout through boredom.
This new disease worries professionals of occupational risk prevention because it tends to affect more and more people, and more particularly employees who have to perform tasks 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 labor trial. A 44-year-old employee of a perfume company is suing his employer for what he considers a form of moral harassment. He was left 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 compensation for notice, his paid vacation, 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 estimates at 43.7% the number of people who are bored at work, and at 73% those who are bored in meetings.
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