'I'd feel like management understands (no pun intended) how we feel': evaluating a hypothetical policy promoting sitting in standing-biased jobs.

IF 2.4 3区工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1080/00140139.2025.2523398

Kaitlin M Gallagher, Rebecca B Leach, Christopher C Rosen

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Abstract

In North America, providing seats for workers who predominantly stand for their jobs is contentious. This mixed-methods study used survey questions and written responses from an online panel of workers who stood for more than 50% of their workday to determine the emotional and cognitive readiness of workers who predominantly stand in response to a hypothetical policy and messaging scenarios, allowing seats for some tasks. While two-thirds of respondents were emotionally ready (i.e., liked the idea), only 50% demonstrated high cognitive change readiness. Improved well-being was a cited benefit, independent of messaging, and potentially more breaks, autonomy, and inclusivity; however, adverse effects on performance were cited (e.g., general job completion, customer perception, policy abuse). Our findings suggest that, while employees may welcome seats, policymakers and ergonomists should address performance deficits (real or perceived) due to seating when disseminating and implementing organisational and labour policies.

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“我觉得管理层应该理解（没有双关语的意思）我们的感受”：评估一项鼓励人们坐着工作的假想政策。

在北美，为主要代表工作的工人提供席位是有争议的。这项混合方法的研究使用了一个在线小组的调查问题和书面回答，这些小组的员工在工作日中站着的时间超过50%，以确定主要是站着的员工对假设的政策和消息传递场景的情绪和认知准备情况，为某些任务留出了座位。虽然三分之二的受访者在情感上做好了准备（即喜欢这个想法），但只有50%的人表现出高度的认知变化准备。幸福感的提高是一个被引用的好处，独立于信息传递，并可能带来更多的休息、自主权和包容性；然而，对绩效的不利影响被引用（例如，一般工作完成，客户感知，政策滥用）。我们的研究结果表明，虽然员工可能会欢迎座位，但政策制定者和人体工程学专家在传播和实施组织和劳工政策时，应该解决由于座位而导致的绩效缺陷（真实的或感知的）。

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Ergonomics 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

147

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ergonomics, also known as human factors, is the scientific discipline that seeks to understand and improve human interactions with products, equipment, environments and systems. Drawing upon human biology, psychology, engineering and design, Ergonomics aims to develop and apply knowledge and techniques to optimise system performance, whilst protecting the health, safety and well-being of individuals involved. The attention of ergonomics extends across work, leisure and other aspects of our daily lives. The journal Ergonomics is an international refereed publication, with a 60 year tradition of disseminating high quality research. Original submissions, both theoretical and applied, are invited from across the subject, including physical, cognitive, organisational and environmental ergonomics. Papers reporting the findings of research from cognate disciplines are also welcome, where these contribute to understanding equipment, tasks, jobs, systems and environments and the corresponding needs, abilities and limitations of people. All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.