{
  "title": "AI on the job: should AI consultations be grouped together?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/ia-on-the-job-zurich-fragmentation-attention-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-13",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A quick answer does not guarantee uninterrupted work. Research on task switching invites us to examine fragmented attention without assuming that every use of AI causes it.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "AI on the Job",
  "place": {
    "name": "Zurich",
    "region": "Zurich",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Sophie Leroy (2009, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) shows that switching from one task to another can leave an “attention residue”: some attention remains attached to the previous task."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Switching tasks requires a change of mental setup",
      "point": "Joshua S."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that AI should be restricted to fixed time slots."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot decide",
      "point": "These articles concern neither generative AI nor organisations in Zurich."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Zurich",
      "point": "As part of “IA on the job”, a Zurich team could run a two-week test on comparable internal cases suitable for processing with its authorised tool, alternating half-days of grouped consultations with half-days of usual use."
    }
  ],
  "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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