Reaction: Boredom is the new burnout, and it’’s quietly killing motivation at work
Boredom masks deeper issues in the workplace. Discover how redesigning roles can revive motivation and combat burnout effectively.
This article nails something most leaders miss: we’ve made burnout socially acceptable while boredom feels like confession of inadequacy.
But here’s what matters more. The real problem isn’t that people mistake one for the other. It’s that both signal the same failure: we’ve stopped designing work that demands human judgment. When AI handles the routine and leaders don’t redesign roles around what actually requires thinking, you get cognitive underload dressed up as exhaustion.
The fix isn’t better diagnosis. It’s better work. Give people problems worth solving, decisions that matter, ambiguity they have to navigate. Boredom disappears when the work requires you to be human.
Boredom is the new burnout, and it’s quietly killing motivation at work
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Artificial intelligence could hit three in five workers — Possibly replacing their jobs. The warning comes in a new international monetary fund report on the future of work. It warned of lower sala…
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