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boredom at work  

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  • Feeling bored at work is a common complaint; a large percentage of employees feel bored at least occasionally and some feel bored much of the time. Boredom has not been studied extensively, but it has attracted some attention from scholars in diverse disciplines including human factors engineering, psychiatry, sociology, education, criminology, and industrial psychology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Boredom at Work]

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