Magazine: A life lived with boreout symptoms turns again itself after a while!

Ági is 27 years old and she is suffering from burnout. She is an economist and a corporate management expert. She speaks German, English and French and she has been working for a multinational company for years. After the excitement of the first few months she found no challenge in her job and started to get bored. Since she was earning well, she decided not to look for a new job. She pretended to be busy and active in her work, acting like she was happy with her tasks, but the problem was that after a while she started to feel anxious and there was no joy in her life. Since she was feeling frustrated, she started to behave annoyingly at home and after six months her husband left her. This only made her situation worse; she turned away from her friends and had sleeping problems. Finally she was laid off from her job but she didn’t try to find a new one. Staying at home and feeling miserable, she started looking for information about her condition on the internet and she realised: she had burnt out because of her work and the boredom that had come with it. From time to time I meet people who suffer from symptoms of boreout. Employees tend to deny that they have boreout, but employers admit to some employees having the problem and they try to change the situation, for instance by challenging employees to bring out the best in them and by creating a supportive work environment. And the miracle does happen: some of the bored employees become motivated again, while others start to look for a new job. The team spirit improves and productivity increases. If you would like to know more about the ‘boreout syndrome’, call +36 30 93 60 296.