The Secret HR Director: Why I want staff to scream at me as loud as they can

So the summer is storming ahead at pace - last month alone we saw the start of the Euros, the Queen’s 90^th birthday celebrations and Microsoft buy LinkedIn - and people are now gearing up for a much needed break, busying themselves with holiday planning and swimwear buying, resort researching and even a bit of language and dialect training… Dos vasos de vino, por favour…

Exciting times then… Except there have been reports of boredom in the workplace. ‘What?’ I hear you cry, ‘actual boredom?’ True story.

French Office Manager Frédéric Desnard took his employer to tribunal for providing him with work that was so boring that, he claims, it was sending him crazy. He used the term ‘descent into hell’ when describing his work at perfume company Interparfum.

So where did it all go wrong? Is there any way we can guarantee a better working environment when we’re all scurrying around trying to champion the latest thinking on motivation and engagement?