Are you bored?
Bored Rhino provided by https://pixabay.com/photos/rhino-boring-animals-zoo-nature-2204784/
With 100% homeoffice for 6+ weeks in the meantime, very reduced face-to-face interaction with colleagues if any interaction is possible/allowed at all, people are realizing slight changes in their work environment. Some are talking about increased productivity others are just bored.
"Bored workers are 2 times more likely to leave a company than those who are not bored" according to the 2016 Udemy Workplace Boredom Study https://research.udemy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-Udemy-Workplace-Boredom-Study.pdf
"More women are bored at work than men", what might also be related to the Gender Pay Gap, see some U.S. data at https://lendedu.com/blog/cities-states-gender-pay-gap/
Udemy is offering a lot of other reports that might contain solutions for the boredom problem? Maybe Online Education, Workplace - Happiness, Distraction, Boundaries and Stress, or closing Skills Gaps? https://research.udemy.com/research-reports/
- You're Not Burnt-Out. You're Bored-Out https://www.inc.com/melissa-lamson/8-ways-to-conquer-bore-out.html
- Boreout Syndrome – The Total Opposite to Burnout https://exploringyourmind.com/boreout-syndrome-the-total-opposite-to-burnout/
- Burnout vs boreout https://nesslabs.com/burnout-vs-boreout
I personally can recommend to better understand yourself, just lately I mentioned the IKIGAI test as one example. But you could also look closer into one of the Management 3.0 practices - Moving Motivators - https://management30.com/practice/moving-motivators/. A good way to understand your intrinsic motivation and how it changes with influence from the outside. Finally in the mindset of lifelong learning, close a skills gap or learn something new, like I am doing it in the moment https://shiftup.work/qualification/.
Anyway you have to realize 1st that you are bored and have to make a change, the 2nd step is easy, as there are endless ideas and opportunities out there to get better over time 😉. https://management30.com/happiness-at-work/ - HAVE FUN ...
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn, American - Educator Born: June 5, 1944, https://www.mindfulnesscds.com/pages/about-the-author
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