What will our work performance be like on a rainy day? And another solitude? How does the weather affect the work context?
These and other questions have recently been addressed by researchers at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, who have carried out A study which investigates the effects of daily morning weather about how people feel while they are at work.
morning weather
He study, published in the magazine Applied Psychology, specifically examined people's daily energy levels, job satisfaction, burnout, and stress in relation to morning weather.
To conduct the study, employees were asked to complete two surveys daily during all work days: one in the morning before starting work and one after work.
Later, they developed what is known as pictorial scale, which is essentially a diagram in which different intervals or phenomena are represented by illustrations usually used to summarize weather forecasts (i.e. a sun, a sun partially hidden by a cloud, a cloud with rain, etc.).
115 employees participated in their study, completing the surveys they had prepared for a total of 457 days. Interestingly, the data they collected suggested that morning weather was only related with positive states of well-being and not with negative states. In other words, the researchers found that the better the weather in the morning, the more employees felt energized and satisfied with their work. On the contrary, when the weather was bad, people felt more fatigued and dissatisfied. On the other hand, more negative indicators of well-being, such as exhaustion and stress, They seemed unaffected by the weather.
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Your performance at work will be different depending on the weather when you get up.
was originally published in
Xataka Science
by
Sergio Parra
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