Musicdrops@work – Réponses aux questionnaires

The Musicdrops@work project aimed to study the impact of short live musical interventions in the context of work. Specifically, students from the Lausanne University of Music, accompanied by the artistic and scientific collaborator of the project, herself a pianist, offered brief moments of live music at the premises of three companies in the secondary or tertiary sector located in Lausanne. These 5-8 minute interventions took place once a week over a twelve-week period. Before and after this experimental period, employees of the three companies concerned answered standardized questionnaires concerning the place of music in their lives, as well as their commitment and well-being at work. After each intervention, they evaluated their appreciation of the musical intervention and their mood at the time. Finally, at the end of the experimental period, focus group interviews lasting about 60 minutes with employee volunteers, semi-directed interviews lasting about 30 minutes with department heads or management were conducted. On the one hand to capture employees' appreciation of the program, on the other hand to better understand its possible impact on everyday office life (new forms of exchange and interaction between colleagues in particular), on the subjective well-being and commitment at work of all the actors concerned. Finally, we examined the link between certain company characteristics (employee profile, management style, more or less autonomous management of working time by employees etc.) and the experience of the twelve week project.