Office workers' computer use patterns are associated with workplace stressors

Office workers' computer use patterns are associated with workplace stressors

Eijckelhof, B.H.W.
Huysmans, M.A.
Blatter, B.M.
Leider, P.C.
Johnson, P.W.
van Dieën, J.H.
Dennerlein, J.T.
van der Beek, A.J.

2014

This field study examined associations between workplace stressors and office workers' computer use patterns. We collected keyboard and mouse activities of 93 office workers (68F, 25M) for approximately two work weeks. Linear regression analyses examined the associations between self-reported effort, reward, overcommitment, and perceived stress and software-recorded computer use duration, number of short and long computer breaks, and pace of input device usage. Daily duration of computer use was, on average, 30 min longer for workers with high compared to low levels of overcommitment and perceived stress. The number of short computer breaks (30 s-5 min long) was approximately 20% lower for those with high compared to low effort and for those with low compared to high reward. These outcomes support the hypothesis that office workers' computer use patterns vary across individuals with different levels of workplace stressors. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd and The Ergonomics Society.

Healthy Living
WE - Work & Employment
Themalijn
Work and Employment
Workplace
Healthy Living
Computer break
Computer use
Upper extremity
Regression analysis
Computer use
Field studies
Input devices
Office workers
Upper extremity
Office buildings
Association
Computer
Computer mouse
Controlled study
Data processing
Exercise
Information processing
Job satisfaction
Job stress
Keyboard
Linear regression analysis
Office worker
Outcome assessment
Reward
Self report
Workload
Workplace

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:98627607-3711-4bc4-9178-768307219d8e

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2014.05.013

513395

1872-9126

Applied Ergonomics, 45 (6), 1660-1667

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