Boredom Proneness Scale for Workplace Engagement

Thanks for taking a few minutes to reflect on how boredom shows up in your work day. Your responses are completely confidential and anonymized. There are no right or wrong answers here — honest responses are what make this useful. About 5-6 minutes.

How much do you agree or disagree with each statement about yourself?

Thinking about the last 30 days, how often did you feel bored or understimulated during your work day?

Which of the following most often leave you feeling bored at work? Select all that apply.

• Routine or repetitive tasks
• Meetings without a clear agenda
• Waiting for input or approval from others
• Training or onboarding sessions
• Slow periods with light workload
• Tasks that don't match my skills or interests

When you feel bored at work, how do you typically respond? Rank these from your most common response (top) to your least common (bottom).

1. Look for something else productive to do
2. Let my mind wander
3. Ask for additional or different work
4. Scroll social media or browse online
5. Chat with coworkers
6. Push through and wait it out

How boring do you find each of these, on a typical day?

Ask the respondent to describe the most recent specific moment they felt bored at work: what task or situation triggered it, how long it lasted, and what they did in response. Anchor on whether the boredom came from too little stimulation (repetitive tasks, understaffed slow periods) or too much friction (unclear priorities, waiting on others). If their earlier answers suggested high boredom proneness overall, probe whether this feels like a lasting personal trait or a symptom of how their current role is designed.

Just a few quick background questions — all optional — to help us see patterns across teams.

Which age range do you fall into?

• Under 25
• 25-34
• 35-44
• 45-54
• 55-64
• 65 or older
• Prefer not to say

How long have you worked at your current organization?

• Less than 6 months
• 6 months to 2 years
• 2-5 years
• 5-10 years
• 10+ years
• Prefer not to say

What best describes your current work arrangement?

• Fully onsite
• Hybrid
• Fully remote
• Prefer not to say

Which department or team are you part of? (Template note: replace this list with your organization's actual department names before launching.)

• Operations
• Sales
• Customer Support
• Engineering/Production
• Administration
• Other
• Prefer not to say

That's everything — thank you! Your answers feed into a report on where and why boredom shows up in day-to-day work, so we can redesign the parts that don't need to be dull.