BBC
Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?
Overwork culture is thriving; we think of long hours and constant exhaustion as a marker of success. Given what we know about …
Health WorkHealth
Across our curated articles on health, you'll find a range of guides, research studies, and actionable tips on sleep, how to stay healthy in the workplace, when you travel and work remotely.
Dynomight
Better air is the easiest way not to die
While most things that clearly improve health are well known, one is insanely underrated: Fixing your air. I suspect this is …
HealthThe Wall Street Journal
You're Going Back to the Office. What Happens to Your Nap Habit?
Working remotely has made taking an afternoon snooze a lot easier, and it won’t be easy to give up. ‘I will …
HealthThe New Yorker
Is the Pandemic Breaking Our Backs?
Test-driving a batch of posture-enhancing devices that are supposed to make you stand tall.
Health WorkInsider
Japan has appointed a 'Minister of Loneliness' after seeing suicide rates in the country increase for the first time in 11 years
Japan has appointed a “Minister of Loneliness” to take try and reduce loneliness and social isolation among its …
Health LifeDeloitte
Deloitte research reveals significant return on investment for workplace mental health programs
Median annual ROI more than double for every dollar spent by companies with programs in place for more than three years.
Health WorkThe Onion
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
In an effort to help working individuals improve their fitness and well-being, experts at the Mayo Clinic issued a new set of …
HealthLiterary Hub
Why Office Workers Can't Sleep (and Why That's Bad)
Ever since the discovery that light—and particularly blue light—can suppress melatonin and alter the timing of our circadian …
Health WorkElemental
Dancing May Be the Best Form of Exercise
The trouble with exercise is that it’s easy to avoid. Only 23% of American adults meet the federal recommendations for …
HealthForbes
How One CEO Used His Experience With Burnout To Better Support His Employees' Mental Health
I interviewed Joel and Courtney Seiter, Buffer’s director of people, to learn more about Joel’s personal …
Health Remote WorkDistributed.blog
Leadership Coach Leo Widrich on Emotional Wellness for Distributed Workers
In this episode, Leo shares tips for distributed workers on how to build healthy habits and avoid the “loneliness …
Health Podcast Remote WorkCityLab
Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing
New research finds that, when a neighborhood’s green space leads to better health outcomes, tree canopy provides most …
HealthThe Guardian
'It's a superpower': how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier
Neuroscientist Shane O’Mara believes that plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like …
Happiness HealthBonnie Eisenman
What I Know About: Being Sick at Work
I’ve spent a lot of time working on skills to make it easier for me to exist in a professional environment. This …
Health WorkMEL Magazine
The Loneliness Epidemic Is So Bad, World Leaders Have Been Forced to Intervene
When politicians are staging national interventions to force us to connect with each other — and actually spending real money …
Health LifeUniversity of Cambridge
One day of paid work a week is all we need to get mental health benefits of employment
“We know unemployment is often detrimental to people’s wellbeing, negatively affecting identity, status, time …
Health WorkBBC
How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
From the emergence of a spiky growth at the back of some people’s skulls to the enigmatic finding that our elbows are …
HealthThe New York Times
No, Night Owls Aren't Doomed to Die Early
Despite alarmist headlines and a study that suggested morning people live longer, the truth is more complicated.
HealthDice
Burnout is Now an Official Medical Condition
Burnout is real, and it now has its own distinction with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a legitimate medical …
Health WorkPopular Science
City life damages mental health in ways we're just starting to understand
Urban dwellers are particularly at risk from the impacts of air pollution and other hazards on mental health.
HealthThe New York Times
Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber?
A small body of evidence suggests that when it comes to decision making, indoor air may matter more than we have realized.
Health WorkWIRED
You're not getting enough sleep—and it's killing you
“The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness, …
HealthThe New York Times
Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer
By raising levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our long-term health.
HealthSolving Procrastination
Study finds that low-quality sleep can lead to procrastination, especially among people who naturally struggle with self-regulation
The findings show that low sleep-quality is associated with increased levels of procrastination during the following day, and …
HealthThe Guardian
Forget standing desks: to stay healthy, you've got to move all day
The solution to sitting isn’t to stand, though it helps. In fact, according to the findings of a 2015 consensus panel …
HealthNature
Screen time: how much is too much?
It has become a defining question of our age: do children and adolescents spend more time than is healthy staring at a phone, …
HealthThe Guardian
Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study
People living with air pollution have higher rates of depression and suicide, a systematic review of global data has found.
HealthThe New Yorker
Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can't
Dreams also help us to master new skills; practicing a task or a language in our sleep can be as helpful as doing so when we …
HealthThe New York Times
Are You Sitting Down? Standing Desks Are Overrated
They’re not cures for anything, and standing is not exercise.
HealthWorld Economic Forum
Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
Humans can sleep on very different schedules, with little difference in wakeful competence. International sleep researchers …
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