Cities with the best and worst work-life balance
Expert Market conducted a study comparing working hours and vacation time taken in different global cities. As Business Insider explains, Using data from Swiss banking group UBS, the
“Real recreation quickens aspiration”
Whatever dissipates physical or mental power obviously never re-creates. Many eminent men have found almost all the recreation they required through switching from one activity to another, through
Workaholics are more likely to have ADHD
Sampling 16,426 Norwegian workers who responded to ads in online newspapers, a team lead by University of Bergen researcher Cecilie Schou Andreassen found that workaholics — or 7.8
Paul Lafargue on working hours and factory productivity: Less is more
I started reading Paul Lafargue’s 1883 pamphlet The Right to Be Lazy a couple days ago. Lafargue was a Cuban-born French writer, a wealthy plantation owner’s son who got
“Our philosophy is that the rest is as important as the work”
Bonnie Crater, CEO of marketing company Full Circle Insights and a Silicon Valley veteran, says, “My whole life I’ve probably worked typically 40-50 hours a week.” There have
“younger workers are often off task, engaged on social media”
Take it with a grain of salt, but this from a Texas factory owner complaining about government regulations as Kids Today: The Department of Labor rules and other
On creative lives and the art of saying “no”
One of the striking things I noticed when writing REST was how often the people I was studying said no to things, arranged their lives to smoothy avoid
Judy Wacjman on technology and time pressure
There’s a great interview with LSE sociologist Judy Wajcman about her latest book, Pressed for Time: I have been skeptical about the story that acceleration is a purely
Americans “equate happiness with high intensity,” and we always have
Emma Seppala, whose new book The Happiness Something Or Other came out this week, is doing an admirable job of hitting the airwaves to promote the book. (I
The Bernice Eiduson longitudinal study of scientists and STEM subject snobbery
The Guardian has a piece by 16 year-old Orli Vogt-Vincent about “STEM subject snobbery,” and how the emphasis on science, technology, education and maths* leads us to both underfund