{
  "title": "Changing priorities: what does it cost the work already under way?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/changer-de-priorite-le-cout-cognitif-des-arbitrages-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-12-11",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Rapidly reassigning teams can look like agility. Research suggests distinguishing the speed of a management decision from people's actual ability to resume demanding work.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Basel",
    "region": "Bâle-Ville",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Sophie Leroy (2009, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) shows through experiments that some attention can remain attached to a previous task and affect performance on the next one."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A second mechanism: reconfiguring the activity",
      "point": "Joshua S."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "It would be tempting to conclude that good managers should always protect their teams from interruptions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot quantify",
      "point": "These experiments do not provide a universal price, in minutes or francs, for each change of priority."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Bâle",
      "point": "Within Basel's pharmaceutical and life sciences ecosystem, a team connecting international R&D with Rhine logistics could test a rule: every non-urgent reassignment is preceded by a note recording the status of the suspended work and the next action needed to resume it."
    }
  ],
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 415,
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  "relatedPages": {
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}