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Boredom Proneness Scale for Workplace Engagement
Measures how prone employees are to feeling bored or understimulated at work, using a trait-style statement battery, situational triggers, and coping responses. Built for HR, L&D, and people-analytics teams. An AI follow-up interview reconstructs a real recent boring moment to separate personality-driven boredom proneness from fixable role-design problems.
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13 questions · ~7 min
Q02
MatrixRequired
How much do you agree or disagree with each statement about yourself?
7 rows × 5 columns
- It's easy for me to stay focused on my work tasks.
- I often find myself with time on my hands and nothing to do.
- During the day, time seems to drag on and on.
- I get bored more easily than most of my coworkers.
- I need a lot of variety in my work to stay interested in it.
- +2 more
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q03
Opinion ScaleRequired
Thinking about the last 30 days, how often did you feel bored or understimulated during your work day?
Scale: 0 – 10
Min:NeverMax:Nearly all day, every day
Q04
Multiple Choice
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
Q05
Ranking
When you feel bored at work, how do you typically respond? Rank these from your most common response (top) to your least common (bottom).
- Look for something else productive to do
- Let my mind wander
- Ask for additional or different work
- Scroll social media or browse online
- Chat with coworkers
- Push through and wait it out
Drag to rank
Q06
Slider Matrix
How boring do you find each of these, on a typical day?
5 rows, one slider each
- Attending routine meetings
- Doing repetitive administrative tasks
- Waiting for approvals or handoffs
- Completing required training
- Working during slow or quiet periods
Slider 0–10Min:Not boring at allMax:Extremely boring
Q07
AI Interview
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.
Q08
Message
Just a few quick background questions — all optional — to help us see patterns across teams.
Q09
Multiple Choice
Which age range do you fall into?
- Under 25
- 25-34
- 35-44
- 45-54
- 55-64
- 65 or older
- Prefer not to say
Q10
Multiple Choice
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
Q11
Multiple Choice
What best describes your current work arrangement?
- Fully onsite
- Hybrid
- Fully remote
- Prefer not to say
Q12
Dropdown
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
Q13
Message
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.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Includes a dedicated agree/disagree statement battery for trait-level boredom proneness, not just a generic Likert template
- Adds situational triggers (multiple-choice) and a ranked coping-response question so responses map to real workplace behavior, not just abstract agreement
- Uses an AI follow-up interview to reconstruct a specific recent boring moment, separating personality-driven boredom proneness from fixable role-design issues — something no static form can do
- Pairs a slider matrix on daily task boredom with optional demographic and tenure questions so HR/L&D teams can segment results by department, work arrangement, and time at company
QuestionPro
Boredom Proneness Scale Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire TemplateThis is a directly comparable, topic-matched template built around the classic Boredom Proneness Scale item set. It's presented as a static questionnaire with sample questions rather than an adaptive interview, so it works well for straightforward academic-style scoring but not for probing individual responses. Good reference for question wording, less useful for distinguishing trait boredom from workplace/role factors.
What it does well
- Directly matches the boredom proneness topic with a recognizable scale-based question set
- Likely includes sample questionnaire structure useful for quick deployment
- Backed by QuestionPro's established survey platform and reporting tools
Where it falls short
- Static Likert-style form with no adaptive follow-up to explore why a respondent feels bored
- No mechanism to separate stable trait boredom proneness from situational or role-design causes
- No published methodology on how per-response scoring or interpretation is derived
SurveyMonkey
Likert Scale Survey TemplateThis is a generic Likert scale template, not a boredom-proneness-specific instrument — a team would need to substitute in all boredom-related statements themselves. It's a solid general-purpose scaffold for agree/disagree batteries but offers no boredom triggers, coping-response ranking, or workplace-engagement framing out of the box.
What it does well
- Flexible, well-known template usable for any agree/disagree statement battery
- Backed by SurveyMonkey's mature distribution and basic reporting features
- Easy starting point for teams already familiar with the platform
Where it falls short
- No boredom-specific content — trigger questions, coping rankings, and situational context must be built from scratch
- Purely static scale with no adaptive AI follow-up to probe individual boredom experiences
- No built-in way to separate personality-driven boredom from fixable job-design issues
SurveySparrow
Free Likert Scale Questionnaire TemplateAnother generic, customizable Likert scale template rather than a purpose-built boredom proneness instrument — 'boredom' isn't the subject, agreement-scale methodology is. It's a reasonable base for building a trait statement battery but lacks any of the situational, coping, or interview-based components the topic calls for, and would need substantial customization for workplace boredom research.
What it does well
- Customizable Likert framework adaptable to many survey topics
- Conversational survey format may improve completion rates
- Simple to adapt for HR teams already using SurveySparrow
Where it falls short
- Not boredom-specific out of the box; all trait statements, triggers, and coping items must be authored manually
- No adaptive AI interview to reconstruct a real recent boring moment or probe root causes
- No transparent scoring methodology or automated report generation tied to boredom proneness specifically
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