It feels like the whole world is tired. Even though the vaccine shines a light at the end of the tunnel, the home stretch will be long and perhaps take a greater toll on our professional lives than we expect it to.
On Blind, the largest anonymous professional community with 4.1M users from big tech, unicorns, and startups, an Amazon employee asked, “Anyone else just simply bored at work? I find nothing challenging”
Key learnings from nearly 2,000 professionals
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67% of professionals are bored at work
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64% of FAANG professionals are bored at work
- 72% of Amazon professionals are bored at work, contrasted by only 45% of Netflix professionals
- 70% of tech professionals are bored at work
- 77% of Microsoft professionals are bored at work
- 81% of Cisco professionals are bored at work
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64% of FAANG professionals are bored at work
See the raw data here.
A user at Google shared “I’m extremely challenged right now, onboarding during a pandemic to a complicated and large code base with tribal knowledge and a stack I’m not used to as a new grad.”
An apple user is at the opposite end of the spectrum, “All the time, I am super underutilized and it is killing me. Want to cry every day because of boredom.”
What we suggest?
If you have a light week, tell your boss you’re ready for more responsibility. If you’re bored with your work, tell your boss you want to learn more by experiencing different tasks.
“I love hearing that from someone and they will always be the one that comes to mind when I need to hire someone at a higher level,” said Chanda Torrey, CEO of Gifter World. “It shows drive, ambition, and the willingness to do what needs to be done.”
