Interparfums

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2020: The employee adjuded compensation in the amount of $45 thousand for too boring work

In the middle of June, 2020 the employee of technology company Interparfums, razrabyvayushchy digital solutions for the organization of sales of perfumery products, seized from a rabotodtel compensation in the amount of $45 thousand for too boring work.

Frédéric Desnard said that at work he was given so few tasks that his health reeled with infinite boredom. The term "boreout" (literally "be bored to death") was thought up by the Swiss business consultants Peter Werder and Philippe Rothlin in 2007 and characterizes result of lack of significant, difficult tasks in a workplace. As well as in case of an opposite status, burning out which results from a long stress symptoms can include a depression, headaches and insomnia.

In the middle of June, 2020 the employee of technology company Interparfums adjuded compensation in the amount of $45 thousand for too boring work

Desnar went to work in 2010.

Concerned nobody whether I came to the 9 or 10 mornings. I bought a paper pack, and my working day could be considered finished, - he told.

The main objectives included setup of the tablet of the CEO and issue of admissions for a meeting with the manager. Desnar worked at this place till 2014, had a nervous breakdown and took an unpaid leave for seven months. After it dismissed for a long absence. Desnar described time spent in the company as "slow immersion to hell" and considered that its role came down to "daily humiliation of the personality".

The French court established connection between boredom which Desnar felt at work, and deterioration in his health. The court decided that Interparfums became the reason "boredom and lack of activity" Desnara in a workplace and demanded compensation. It is not a single problem - it is considered that to a third of employees of the French companies suffer from boredom in workplaces because of the strict legislation which complicates dismissal of workers whose positions become superfluous because of technology or economic changes.^[1]

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