• DocumentCode
    727737
  • Title

    How to arrange rest in work: A process view

  • Author

    Qiguo Gong ; Wenhui Huang

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Manage., Univ. of Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    22-24 June 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Rest break is an important part of healthy lifestyle for working professionals. There have been various researches regarding this subject with different disciplinary backgrounds, getting various conclusions including decreasing discomfort and reducing health complaints, particularly on neck and shoulder. In addition, rest break also improves workers´ productivity and has great effect on the safety of workplace. Through simulations and experiments, researchers have proved that frequent, brief rest break may have the best effects. In this paper, we will adopt quantitative approaches of Process Theory, Queueing Theory and simulations to intensify the same conclusion that more frequency of rest can produce higher productivity in service systems.
  • Keywords
    human factors; organisational aspects; queueing theory; process theory; productivity; quantitative approach; queueing theory; Ergonomics; Neck; Productivity; Queueing analysis; Schedules; Standards; Time-frequency analysis; Process Theory; Queueing Theory; Rest break; Service systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2015 12th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-8327-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSSSM.2015.7170316
  • Filename
    7170316