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Most owners of small businesses reconcile competing work and life demands in an ad hoc way.
A trial of a four-day working week shows that employees felt better about their job, were more engaged and reported better work-life balance and less stress.
Do you check your work email before you go to bed at night and first thing when you wake? How about on holiday? This is the effect of mobile working.
The things we think about email, rightly or wrongly, and what light scientific research has to shine on them.
Companies may benefit when customers create content, provide feedback and do busywork once done by paid employees, but what about the customers themselves – all of us?
Policymakers can get more for their money when planing incentives for mothers to work.
Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend's holiday snaps on Facebook: that's workplace cyberloafing.
Having a job plays an important role in our overall happiness – yet research also shows most of us are unhappy while we're at work.
Sweden's switch to a six-hour working day is doing it the world of good.
Employees in countries with shorter working hours report more work-family conflict – what's going on?
Are penalty rates no longer relevant in the retail industry — and do they cost jobs? Recent research compared two neighbouring states where one raised rates to the other's level to find the answer.
If you could work from anywhere, where and how might you live?
In the age of the smartphone, it's often hard to switch off after work. Here's how employment law can help.
Australia's largest companies are happy to tick gender reporting boxes, but when it comes to pay equity they are largely silent.
Life is messy – and it's time we accepted that.
A work-life-family balance is highly valued by most workers and employers now realise they need to offer flexible arrangements such as reduced hours, flexi-time or telework (working from home). Workplace…
Some countries make it easier than others for women to have a family and keep on working.
When workers are living their lives online, it's hard to see the joins between home and office. So how can employers answer the growing desire to seprate the seemingly inseparable?
Despite macho career advice, it's time for scientists – and everyone else – to understand that the point is to work smarter, not longer and to strive for a realistic and livable work/life balance.
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