Sitting at a desk at work makes creative employees tired

Viive Pille, Viiu Tuulik and Aaro Hazak

No 34, TUT Economic Research Series from Department of Finance and Economics, Tallinn University of Technology

Abstract: We seek to identify how working hours spent at the workplace relate to work outcomes and the tiredness of the employee. Our study covers Estonian creative R&D employees – product developers, IT developers as well as academic and applied researchers. It appears that the greater the share of working time spent at the workplace, the more tired employees feel. Furthermore, the more time the employee does his or her work at the office, the more they perceive the results of the work as lower. Tiredness may be related to the obligation to do the work in a place and at a time that does not coincide with the employee’s creative mood. In view of these results, employers may wish to consider whether sitting at a desk at work for a fixed number of hours is the best way to organise the work of creative employees.

Date: 2017-08-31
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