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It's so boring - or is it? Examining mindfulness in monotonous jobs

ResearchPod
ResearchPod
Episode • Mar 24, 2023 • 11m

We all get bored at work from time-to-time, but some jobs are more monotonous than others.

Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, mindfulness has been found to be an effective way to improve the boredom associated with remote working. So could boredom during jobs such as working on an assembly line or providing delivery services be improved with mindfulness practices too?

Prof Jochen Reb at Singapore Management University is part of an international team of researchers trying to understand how we can improve work-induced boredom.

 

Read their original research: http://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12370

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