productivity
February 2025 - Corporate Stupidity, The Noetic Spiral, Gen Z's Unbossing Revolution, and Why Burnout Isn't What You Think
this is Issue #72
productivity
EME
Your job might be killing you
There are 120,000 excess deaths per year attributed to ten workplace conditions and they cause approximately $190 billion in incremental health care costs. That makes the workplace the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. — higher than Alzheimer’s, higher than kidney disease. 1. Being unemployed sometimes
management
Netflix to employees: Take as much vacation as you want
Employees at the online movie retailer often leave for three, four, even five weeks at a time and never clock in or out. Vacation limits and face-time requirements, says Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, are "a relic of the industrial age." "The worst thing is for
Work and the workplace
Study: Baroque music helps you focus
86 % of students surveyed enjoyed class more with baroque background music whereas 76 % of students without any music found the class enjoyable 33 % of students found math challenging whereas 46 % in the class without the baroque music found it challenging. Earlier research findings show that Baroque music enhances learning of
Work and the workplace
The secret to greater productivity: a nap
“You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner,” Churchill said, explaining that this includes taking off one’s clothes and climbing into bed. “Don’t think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That’s a foolish notion held by people who have no imaginations.
Work and the workplace
Super Bowl is a sure loss of productivity
from csmonitor.com Every 10 minutes workers spend discussing the likely outcome of Sunday's Super Bowl on company time will cost the nation's employers as much as $162.1 million in lost productivity, the outplacement specialist Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimates. And that doesn't