Boreout: A New Phenomenon in Times of Corona
Boreout and burnout are closely related. If people are challenged too little, receive too little input from outside and learn too little, they may face a boreout. If it is too much of everything, the risk of burnout increases.
There are scenarios where people will still have four hours of work a day in 2030. This raises the question of how we deal with it, also to avoid boreout. But the corona insulation suddenly leads to a great danger of boreout.
Nobody knows how long the phase lasts, when a light at the end of the tunnel is in sight, so to speak, and the insulation measures are relaxed. Such extreme uncertainty in connection with ever new measures can traumatize people.
There are basically three important facets of boreout: boredom, a crisis of meaning, and uncertainty about your own developments. In the case of Corona, boredom at home, a crisis of meaning due to the threat and uncertainty of where the journey is headed.
Some people may get bored with their job, but they understand that a current professional situation serves an overarching goal, for example a next development step. So they see meaning in what they are doing and develop further. It becomes dangerous when they feel that they are stuck in a dead end and no longer see any perspective.
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