How boredom is killing your staff... & what to do about it

Staff looking a little bored at their desks? It could be worse than you think.

A study of 7,000 UK civil servants has found that very bored workers were more likely to die during a 24-year research period than those who were not bored.

According to Dr Sandi Mann, Senior Lecturer - Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire, boredom is thought by some to be a distinct emotional state in which the level of stimulation is perceived as unsatisfactorily low.

The lack of external stimulation leads to increased neural arousal in search of variety – failure to satisfy this leads to the experience of boredom – the Chartered Management Institute reports.