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Why Your Workplace Feels Like a Toxic Prison: The Boredom Trap | Ep 9 S1
📄 Full research article: https://www.keca.co.uk/articles/everyday-sadism-at-work
Does boredom at work drive bad behaviour? A study of 120 employees reveals a cycle of conduct that makes the day worse.
New research involving 120 employees demonstrates that quiet periods often trigger negative actions. While these outbursts may offer momentary relief, they ultimately perpetuate a cycle of counterproductive work behaviour that leads to further disengagement.
For those interested in organisational psychology, these findings challenge the idea that bad conduct is simply a personality flaw. We examine why the relief from such actions is temporary and how shifting your perspective on workplace conduct can help break the pattern.
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Something in your workplace is unpleasant in small ways and it's worst on quiet days. Four researchers followed 120 employees twice a day for 10 days. They found a bored day was followed by a worse behaved day and a worse behaved day by a more bored one. So whatever the cruelty buys is gone by the morning and what arrives is more of the thing that caused it.
If filling the time doesn't fix this, what does? . . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.