• Project number: F 2511
• Institution: Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA)
• Status: Completed Project

Description:

Time and performance pressure and information overload are relevant demands in today's working world and key factors for work design across a wide range of industries and company sizes. Avoiding, reducing and dealing well with these demands are key requirements for companies in order to minimise possible negative psychosocial and health consequences for employees.

However, work design (particularly work design that focuses on working conditions) is still far too rare when faced with time and performance pressure and information overload. Even companies that address psychosocial demands in the context of psychosocial risk assessment or in other contexts often do not get to the selection, implementation and evaluation of design measures. There is obviously a need for support here, which was addressed by the project.

In the first part of the project, results on design options for time and performance pressure and information overload, as well as recommendations for successful work design processes for psychosocial demands, were combined and prepared in form of an action guide for companies which is freely accessible to all interested parties.

In the second part of the project, this first version of the guide was revised and expanded. The revision is based on discussions with practitioners in companies, who are operationally responsible for the design of work concerning psychosocial demands, as well as with experts working across companies. The second version of the guide will be published in the first half of 2025 and will then also be available to all interested users.