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Boreout
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<p>Boredom boreout syndrome is a <a href="/facts/Psychological_disorder/EPNjFtFf">psychological disorder</a> that causes physical illness, mainly caused by mental underload at the workplace due to lack of either adequate quantitative or qualitative workload. One reason for boreout could be that the initial job description does not match the actual work. </p><p>The syndrome was first given this name in 2007 in <i>Diagnose Boreout</i>, a book by Peter Werder and Philippe Rothlin, two <a href="/facts/Switzerland/LcGuxeTe">Swiss</a> business consultants. </p><p>It had earlier been published about under the name "underchallenged burnout" by American teacher Barry A. Farber in 1991. </p>