Impressive as results from four-day work-week trials may appear, it’s still not clear if they would apply across the economy.
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Disturbed sleep can worsen depressive symptoms of health care workers whose jobs come with high levels of emotional labor and work-family conflict.
Running gives us an identity that may help us cope when our sense of self is challenged at work.
Remote working policy needs to strike a balance between productivity and individual rights of employees.
It turns out that there are some benefits to all the time we spend commuting.
More choice over when we work be the next big gain in productivity.
Quiet quitting could be a sign of disengagement. Here’s how to raise the issue with your manager.
Post-COVID, employees are looking for work-life flexibility, but this doesn’t just mean working from home. The new New Zealand workplace is still up for negotiation.
Doing just the duties that your job requires has a long history in the labour movement.
The mental health benefits of quiet quitting could make you a better employee and a happier person.
Collective bargaining carried out by unions can ultimately benefit employers, not just employees.
The work-life balance is about more than shutting off devices or abstaining from emails and meetings after 6 p.m.
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.
According to one interviewee, politics is the ‘most physically, intellectually, emotionally challenging role’ they can think of.
Apple TV’s Severance imagines what would happen to our sense of self if we could completely separate our work and home lives.
Getting on well with your work mates will improve your domestic partnership.
Devotion to work can lead to burnout.
For most Australians working a standard full-time job, moving to a 4-day work week could occur in two stages.
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.
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.
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