Work Life & Environment

Magazine articles on office politics, stress, time management, and the work environment.

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Fast Company Lydia Dishman	Why Managers And Employees Have Wildly Different Ideas About Work-Life Balance "For most organizations, the work of the company takes priority over the life of the individual," says Cheryl Palmer, the owner of coaching firm Call to Career.
Fast Company February 3, 2015	How You Really Sound While Flirting With Your Office Crush The office crush. We've all gone there. But how many of us have returned unscathed?
Fast Company Lydia Dishman	Why Are Construction Workers The Happiest Employees? According to TINYpulse's 2015 Best Industry Ranking report, gathered from its anonymous one-question feedback surveys from over 30,000 employees across more than 500 organizations, among 12 distinct industries, construction and facility service workers are the happiest employees.
Fast Company Rachel Gillett	We Found The Exact Music To Break Through Open Office Distractions Here are the different ways we integrated ambient sounds and different types of music without lyrics into our workflow last week and some tips we learned along the way.
Fast Company Vivian Giang	The Surprising And Powerful Links Between Posture and Mood Embodied cognition, is the idea that the relationship between our mind and body runs both ways, meaning our mind influences the way our body reacts, but the form of our body also triggers our mind.
Fast Company Doug Aamoth	Free App Friday: 5 Painless Ways To Be More Productive At Work Here are a handful of ideas about how to handle messages, automate repetitive tasks, and get things done more quickly.
Fast Company Vivian Giang	How Smiling Changes Your Brain We know smiling can greatly improve your mood and reduce stress. Even better, your smile doesn't have to be real, so you can fake it and still get the same results.
AskMen.com Pejman Ghadimi	Tips For Working From Home Realize that you are no longer trading company time for money, but instead are trading your very own time, which should be 10 times more valuable. So make it count...
Fast Company Jared Lindzon	Why One-Size-Fits-All Health Initiatives Don't Work While most American companies continue to pursue one-size-fits-all corporate wellness engagements, some have already begun implementing a more personalized approach.
HBS Working Knowledge January 26, 2015 Michael Blanding	Want Lower Health Costs? Get Managers to Reduce Stress Joel Goh and colleagues estimate that workplace stress is responsible for up to 8 percent of national spending on health care and contributes to 120,000 deaths a year. Is better management the fix?
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