{
  "title": "Belonging to several teams: the cost of switching",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/appartenir-a-plusieurs-equipes-cout-des-basculements-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-09-24",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Sharing specialists across teams appears rational. Research invites us to distinguish scheduled availability from the attention people can actually bring to their work.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Team Performance",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Michael B."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Attention does not switch instantly",
      "point": "Sophie Leroy (2009, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) experimentally examines “attention residue” when people move from one task to another."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that everyone should be assigned to just one team."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot resolve",
      "point": "A theoretical model of multiple team membership and experiments on task switching do not amount to causal evidence at the level of workplace teams."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "Within SHR’s “[Team Performance](/formation/performance-equipe/sion)” programme, one possible exercise in Sion is to track a shared function: technical expertise in hydropower, healthcare coordination, wine-production support or coordination of Alpine tourism activities."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Woolley",
      "year": "2011",
      "source": "Academy of Management Review"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Leroy",
      "year": "2009",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    }
  ],
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    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}