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Description: Do you find yourself staring blankly at your computer screen all day? Do you spend your afternoons sending messages to friends on the internet? Does your job give you no satisfaction at all? Are you constantly tired and lethargic?
If so, you could be suffering not from burnout but from boreout, which is fast becoming the new office epidemic. Boreout! explores the causes of demotivation in the workplace ” including boredom, disinterest in the job and the absence of a stimulating challenge. Boreout has become widespread in offices around the world, but the problem is only now being recognized by employers.
In this insightful new book, the authors bring to light this growing problem and show employees and employers how to recognize boreout and avoid its consequences. Whether you are an employee suffering from this draining condition, or an employer desperate to save your staff from the boreout trap, this book is essential reading.
Contents: Introduction: The world of work in the 21st century: from burnout to boreout ¢ Boreout: Concept, elements and development ¢ The relationship of boreout to burnout ¢ Element 1 Being understretched ¢ Element 2 Lack of committment ¢ Element 3 Boredom ¢ Boreout compared with laziness ¢ How does boreout develop? ¢ Boreout strategies ¢ The compromise strategy ¢ The levelling-out strategy ¢ Strategic obstruction ¢ The briefcase strategy and the home-office link ¢ When boreout secretly leads meetings ¢ The pseudo-burnout strategy and the uproar strategy ¢ The boreout paradox ¢ The ˜Hans in luck` paradox ¢ The gift paradox ¢ The health paradox ¢ And now: the boreout paradox ¢ The causes of boreout ¢ Fun for everyone? ¢ The wrong career choice The wrong location ¢ The strategies again ¢ Better alternatives to work ¢ Digitalization driving boreout? ¢ Normal, but bad ¢ The symptoms of boreout ¢ Can boreout be observed from the outside? ¢ When people suffer inwardly from boreout ¢ And the clients? ¢ Who is affected - and who isn`t? ¢ What protects against boreout - hierarchy or possession? ¢ Staff responsibility for boreout ¢ Boreout intensified by desk jobs ¢ Jobs less liable to boreout ¢ Industralization and specialization: two developments with consequences ¢ The different phases of boreout ¢ Five typologies ¢ Pseudo-solutions do not help ¢ Laziness is no answer ¢ Checks for boreout? ¢ Individual responsibility as an instrument against boreout ¢ Qualitative pay ¢ Work as a mild illness ¢ The elements of qualitative pay ¢ We seek meaning ¢ We value time ¢ We desire money ¢ To summarize ¢ Closing thoughts ¢ Bibliography ¢ Index
About the Authors: Philippe Rothlin has been working as a project manager in the banking sector for many years. He is co-founder of the advertising agency Gruetzi and works as a business strategy consultant.
Peter Werder, a journalist and public relations business consultant, is currently in charge of the communications department of a major company in Switzerland. Together, they hold seminars and consult with companies regarding boreout.
Target Audience: HR Professionals.
Special prices are applicable to the authorised sales territory only.
Prices are subject to change without prior notice. ISBN 9780749456283
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Pages : 158
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