{"id":563,"date":"2017-05-29T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2017-05-26T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:18:36","slug":"bored-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/bored-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"People Aren\u2019t as Bored at Work as You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may feel like most people are bored with their jobs, but that\u2019s hardly the case.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;5% or less&#8221; was the most popular response<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When asked what percent of the time they find themselves bored at work, 32% of people chose \u201c5% or less,\u201d according to data by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/106-what-of-the-time-are-you-bored-at-work\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-564 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/boredbroad.png\" alt=\"boredbroad\" width=\"992\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/boredbroad-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/boredbroad-768x213.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/boredbroad.png 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The youngest admitted to being bored a bit more<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This was the most popular response among people of all genders and age groups, except for those 18 to 25, whose most common response was that they were bored\u201c10% to 25%&#8221; of the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/106-what-of-the-time-are-you-bored-at-work\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-565 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/age18.png\" alt=\"age18\" width=\"490\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/age18-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/age18.png 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 85vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The least popular response overall was \u201c50% or more.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The results come from an ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/106-what-of-the-time-are-you-bored-at-work\">query <\/a>of more than 5,000 workers in the technology industry. The latest reading is as of May 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may feel like most people are bored with their jobs, but that\u2019s hardly the case. &#8220;5% or less&#8221; was the most popular response When asked what percent of the time they find themselves bored at work, 32% of people chose \u201c5% or less,\u201d according to data by Comparably. The youngest admitted to being bored &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/bored-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,6],"tags":[62,58,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}