Statistics from the independent job board, which surveyed 1,200 professionals about boredom at work, found 34% of workers in the manufacturing sector admitted to feeling bored every day, and a further 4.3% claim that they feel this way on a weekly basis.
The top five responses for feeling this way were: disliking the job (28.6%); doing the same thing every day (23.8%); tedious daily tasks (19%); working alone (9.5%); and there being little to do (4.8%).
Just 27.7% of workers stated that they never felt bored in their work life, CV-Library added.
Lee Biggins, founder and managing director of CV-Library, said: “It is very disappointing to see boredom getting the best of manufacturing workers. With so much of our adult lives spent in work, ensuring that you get passion and enjoyment from your career is of paramount importance.
“Prolonged boredom in a job can lead, very quickly, to burnout, low productivity and inevitably a high turnover of staff for businesses, so it’s extremely important that each and every employee in a company feels engaged in their day-to-day work.”
When asked how they maintain productivity at work during these periods of boredom, 24.8% of workers in the manufacturing industry citied that they would prioritise their workload in a bid to re-engage with the work at hand.
Following this, 15.2% would aim to do one task at a time, with a further 13% opting to listen to music in an attempt to ward off the onset of boredom.
Biggins added: “While it is good that workers in the sector have coping mechanisms in place to ensure that their productivity levels don’t decline, there is clearly a worrying trend of boredom in the workplace.
“It is up to employers to identify disengaged workers and find ways of reinjecting purpose and interest into their job role, or risk a high turnover of staff as a result. In some cases, it may be that workers are simply not in the correct job, and they should take these feelings of boredom as a sign that they need to start searching for a new job that they are passionate about.”
