{"id":2362,"date":"2017-11-22T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2017-11-29T20:53:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:53:52","slug":"boredom-at-work-isnt-as-common-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/boredom-at-work-isnt-as-common-as-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Boredom at Work Isn&#8217;t as Common as You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become commonplace for people to talk about how bored they are at work, but it&#8217;s not as prevalent a problem as you may think.<\/p>\n<p>Just 9% of workers say they are bored more than 50% of the time, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/106-what-of-the-time-are-you-bored-at-work\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. On the flip side, 56% of people say they are bored 10% of the time or less, with most of those respondents bored 5% or less of the time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2364\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/wil.png\" alt=\"wil\" width=\"1181\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/wil-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/wil-768x207.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/wil-1024x277.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/wil.png 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Gender breakdown<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Men and women shared nearly identical responses, again ranking &#8220;5% or less&#8221; as their most popular answer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2367\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/w.png\" alt=\"w\" width=\"936\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/w-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/w-768x291.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/w.png 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The most bored workers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People in design jobs at tech companies were most bored at work &#8212; 28% of them said they were bored 10-25% of the time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2368\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/DESIGN.png\" alt=\"DESIGN\" width=\"572\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/DESIGN-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/11\/DESIGN.png 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 85vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of Nov. 22. More than 10,000 people across the tech industry participated in the survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become commonplace for people to talk about how bored they are at work, but it&#8217;s not as prevalent a problem as you may think. Just 9% of workers say they are bored more than 50% of the time, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. On the flip side, 56% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/boredom-at-work-isnt-as-common-as-you-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}