How 'media snacks' like HQ Trivia are transforming the workplace
- Games like HQ Trivia and Candy Crush have grown attraction in the workplace as a welcome, brief escape from monotonous tasks at hand.
- Oftentimes played in teams or with co-workers, these apps can enhance camaraderie and add to the ways workers navigate the work day.
- Some research has found that short web surfing breaks during the day have restorative benefits that improve productivity, offer stress relief, or fill downtime between projects.
When Snow White sang "Whistle While You Work," she was participating in a long tradition of using entertainment to manage the stresses of labor.
That same year, factory owners in the United Kingdom became interested in exploring whether music could improve productivity and invested in research to determine the optimal tunes for doing so. Workers welcomed the change, viewing it as a reprieve from the mind-numbing monotony of the mechanical age.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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