{
  "title": "In Lausanne, does boredom at work signal a psychosocial risk?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/lausanne-ennui-au-travail-risque-psychosocial-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2024-12-26",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A team can look busy without finding its work stimulating. Boredom calls for an examination of work organisation, rather than a judgement about motivation.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Psychosocial Risks",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Cynthia Fisher (1993, Human Relations) offers a conceptual review of boredom at work, rather than an estimate of its prevalence or health effects."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Distinguishing workload from obstacles to work",
      "point": "Paul Spector and Steve Jex (1998, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology) develop and evaluate, among other instruments, separate measures of quantitative workload and organisational constraints."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "These studies do not justify concluding that boredom can be corrected by increasing the volume of work."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot diagnose",
      "point": "These two articles are not sufficient to establish a causal link between boredom and illness, or to validate a diagnosis of “bore-out”."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "In Lausanne, a team can test a shared log over two weeks, recording episodes when a planned task remains blocked by a missing approval, information or tool, separately from periods of low activity."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Fisher",
      "year": "1993",
      "source": "Human Relations"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Jex",
      "year": "1998",
      "source": "Journal of Occupational Health Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 438,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Psychosocial-Risks-Lausanne-lausanne-ennui-au-travail-risque-psychosocial-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "fr": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/lausanne-ennui-au-travail-risque-psychosocial",
    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/lausanne-ennui-au-travail-risque-psychosocial-en",
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/lausanne-ennui-au-travail-risque-psychosocial-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
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    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/lausanne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}