{
  "title": "AI assistants: saving time without fragmenting work",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/assistants-ia-reduire-la-fragmentation-du-travail-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-03-08",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An assistant can speed up a task while multiplying shifts in attention. Research invites us to examine the rhythm of interactions, not just the speed of responses.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building AI Assistants and Agents Without Coding",
  "place": {
    "name": "Geneva",
    "region": "Genève",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Sophie Leroy (2009, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) demonstrates experimentally that, after a task switch, some attention can remain attached to the previous task, particularly when it is unfinished."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The cost of switching rules",
      "point": "Joshua S."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that notifications should be disabled and all results reviewed at fixed times."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot settle",
      "point": "These studies concern neither today’s generative agents nor their no-code interfaces."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Genève",
      "point": "In Genève, an exercise in the SHR programme can compare two review arrangements using fictitious or authorised case files: reviewing each result as it becomes available, then reviewing at agreed times, with comparable tasks and the order reversed between participants."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Leroy",
      "year": "2009",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Evans",
      "year": "2001",
      "source": "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance"
    }
  ],
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}