People who work get bored when they don't work. People who don't work never get bored.
How to Stay Productive When You Hate Your Job
Strategies for making it through the day when you’re bored, miserable, and still have work to do
Bored People Quit
Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It's written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don't ha
Why Being Bored Is Good | The Walrus
Technology keeps us constantly stimulated. What do we lose when we no longer have nothing to do?
Boredom is not a problem to be solved. It's the last privilege of a free mind | Gayatri Devi
Lean in to boredom, not your smart phone screen. You’ll learn more about yourself and the world around you than you think
How to be more productive without forcing yourself
Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And you wouldn’t need to force yourself to work.
Opinion | Let Children Get Bored Again (Published 2019)
Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency.
Choose boring employees
An idea I've heard from many directions recently is that "we" (whoever they are) "need to be on the latest tech stack in order to attract developers". And yes, you do attract developers that way....
The YouTube stars heading for burnout: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’
Why are so many YouTubers finding themselves stressed, lonely and exhausted?
Take Naps at Work. Apologize to No One. (Published 2017)
Supercharge your productivity by scheduling in some down time.
Three ways boredom can actually be a benefit
A little boredom can be good for you.
Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices | The Walrus
WeWork offers freelancers a chic workspace and beer on tap—but are people productive?
Why boredom is anything but boring
Implicated in everything from traumatic brain injury to learning ability, boredom has become extremely interesting to scientists.
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
How to Leave Work at Work
Some jobs have very clear lines between when you’re “on” and when you’re “off” while in others the lines are blurred — or potentially nonexistent. That makes not being distracted by work, especially mentally, a major challenge. But you can reduce how distracted you feel by work during times when you’re not working. First, define what “after hours” means for you, considering personal commitments like your commute and family obligations. Next, have mental clarity about what needs to get done and when you will do it. Then, communicate with your colleagues about how (or if) you want to be contacted in your off hours. Finally, do your work at work. If you must bring it home with you, define select hours to work, and don’t let yourself think of work outside of that time period.
A laid-off Meta worker says the company paid her to not work: They were 'hoarding us like Pokémon cards'
"I could have taken a day off and no one would have known," Britney Levy, an ex-Meta worker, said on TikTok, adding she had to "fight to find work."