Could quiet quitting be for you?
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The mental health benefits of quiet quitting could make you a better employee and a happier person.
Employees and their organisations can gain from union membership, research shows.
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Collective bargaining carried out by unions can ultimately benefit employers, not just employees.
The TV show ‘Severance’ has employees separate their work self from their home self completely.
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The work-life balance is about more than shutting off devices or abstaining from emails and meetings after 6 p.m.
No one suddenly becomes old and unproductive on their 65th birthday, so a reformulation of both working age and retirement is sorely warranted.
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A revised retirement age would significantly decrease the number of people classified as ‘old’ and would more accurately reflect the total number of working people in Canada.
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According to one interviewee, politics is the ‘most physically, intellectually, emotionally challenging role’ they can think of.
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Apple TV’s Severance imagines what would happen to our sense of self if we could completely separate our work and home lives.
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Getting on well with your work mates will improve your domestic partnership.
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Devotion to work can lead to burnout.
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For most Australians working a standard full-time job, moving to a 4-day work week could occur in two stages.
A pedestrian views his smartphone as he crosses a city street. Right-to-disconnect laws are aimed at improving the work-life balance of employees, but giving them more freedom over how they work might be a smarter approach.
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The best way to help employees disconnect from work is to allow them the autonomy to choose for themselves how, when and where to disconnect.
Optimal busyness can quickly become excessive busyness.
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Elite employers have created an atmosphere where workers constantly seek to be as busy as possible. Families are often the first casualty of this culture.
A crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic lends urgency to scientific research, putting researchers under pressure to produce.
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Scientists can be asked to help find solutions during disasters. A study of how archaeologists worked on the problem of looting during the Syrian war offers lessons for science done during crisis.
Our grandparents had it easy when it came to time management — society, social norms, business operations and institutions helped them manage their time. Now it’s up to us.
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It’s no secret that time management has become harder than ever. But it’s not because we work more, or that life is getting faster.
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Indonesians’ desire to have a work-family balance is partially driven by the importance of religion in their lives.
For working women with children, the pressure of several competing roles created their sense of guilt.
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Working from home and performing multiple roles leads to constant guilt, which has personal health consequences for women academics.
Frances Arnold received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Science fields are improving at being more inclusive. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
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Tipping the scales away from work may not be the wisest way to recalibrate your work-life balance.
Teachers have shown great resilience and adaptability in the face of COVID.
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Women are often drawn to teaching because of the supposed life-work balance. Extreme workloads and inflexible school structures means too many quit early.
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Iceland has trialled shorter working hours, but not a four-day week.
The high prevalence of insomnia symptoms among health care workers has concerning implications for our health care system.
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To keep our health care providers healthy, we need to help them sleep.