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Bored Workers are Big Threat

ManageSmarter.com reports that a recent study by Sirota Survey Intelligence found that bored workers are a bigger threat to company morale than stressed-out and over-worked employees.

"Feeling overworked -- a condition that could lead to job burnout -- is far more prevalent than feeling bored, yet both have harmful effects on employees and their companies," says Douglas Klein, president of Sirota. "Interestingly, being bored has far more serious consequences for an organization than being overworked."

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What Ticks Us Off At Meetings

Monday's USAToday.com chart and poll focused on what bugs us most about meetings. The bulk of those surveyed (27%) said that disorganized meetings which seemed to have no purpose or agenda ticked them off most. Second place went to people who Interrupt in meetings (17%) and the third most bothersome thing in meetings were Nappers (16%).

The results from the poll (at the time of this writing) asking how readers would describe meetings in their own workplace showed the following:
34% felt meetings were too unfocused
30% thought meetings were too long
30% thought meetings were irrelevant to day-to-day tasks
and a whopping 6% thought their meetings were perfect in every way.

BMS Note: Apparently 6% of the people taking the poll were folks who loved to hold boring meetings.