On a given workday, employees spend time at work doing tasks that are not work-related, potentially using these micro-breaks (i.e., short breaks that are less than 10 min) to attempt to recover depleted psychological resources such as energy and attention. However, most work break and recovery research has focused on how individuals recover from work during formal nonwork time with longer or unspecified time durations (e.g., lunch breaks, evenings, vacations), limiting theoretical and empirical understanding of whether employees can experience recovery within the workday via brief micro-breaks. In the current investigation, we first conducted interviews from 16 shift workers at a Fortune 500 company to develop research questions about how micro-breaks impact psychological resources and recovery experiences. We then used a randomized experiment with a sample of undergraduate students (n = 232) to test the impact of micro-break durations and activities on the recovery of psychological resources (i.e., energy and attention) and recovery experiences. Results show that some, but not all, micro-break conditions can help employees recover back to their baseline (i.e., prework task) levels of psychological resources following a micro-break. Overall, this experiment provides stronger levels of causal inference about the recovery process and presents new ideas regarding how micro-break durations influence well-being via psychological resource recovery. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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检验微休息时间与员工恢复活动之间的相互作用：一种混合方法调查。

在给定的工作日，员工花时间在工作上执行与工作无关的任务，可能利用这些微休息（即少于10分钟的短暂休息）来尝试恢复耗尽的心理资源，例如精力和注意力。但是，大多数工作休息和恢复研究都集中在个人如何在较长或未指定的持续时间（例如午休，晚上，假期）的正式非工作时间从工作中恢复，这限制了对员工是否可以在工作中恢复的理论和经验理解。通过短暂的微休息工作日。在当前的调查中，我们首先对一家财富500强公司的16名轮班工人进行了采访，以提出有关微断裂如何影响心理资源和恢复经验的研究问题。然后，我们使用随机抽样的本科生样本（n = 232）来测试微间歇时间和活动对心理资源（即精力和注意力）的恢复和恢复经历的影响。结果表明，部分但不是全部的微休息条件可以帮助员工在微休息后恢复到心理资源的基线（即工作前任务）水平。总体而言，该实验为恢复过程提供了更强的因果推论，并提出了有关微断裂持续时间如何通过心理资源恢复影响幸福感的新思路。（PsycINFO数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。