Beware of Suffering from Boreout
Getting bored with your present job? Feeling you get nothing other than being tired after work? Beware, you may be suffering from boreout, chronic boredom.
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Boreout or chronic boredom is a sibling and paradox of burnout, acute exhaustion. The two indicate the same symptoms but they have different, even opposite, causes. While burnout is triggered by an excessive burden and target of work, as written in DW, 1 April 2020, boreout is induced by boredom and the lack of work challenges.
Both boreout and burnout constitute a psychological issue in the place of work. Their symptoms also bear resemblance like being apathetic, less enthusiastic, anxious, easily angered, sensitive and emotionally explosive. They also tend to withdraw themselves from social interaction, from friends as well as their loved ones. In extreme conditions, boreout is apt to set off stress and depression.