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Working overtime? Insights from research and law
You might have seen the headlines recently: working long hours isn’t good for our health. Maybe you read the headlines and chose to blissfully ignore them, excusing yourself as the exception to the rule. [...]
How to talk about long working hours and help people shift their behaviour
People tend to work longer hours because they believe it’s expected of them: In times of financial uncertainty or other life uncertainty, people become more concerned about their work to seem more productive, fear [...]
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota (Book review)
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota (Penguin House, Released 2 March 2021) I recently listened to this audio book and was fascinated by this highly competent and driven young woman’s description of how studying and [...]
Flexible working – the future of work that is happening now. Are you in?
When I joined Umbrella as a Marketing Lead, and received my first emails from my colleagues, the first thing I noticed was they had their working hours and days specified in their signatures. Everyone [...]
Nudging for good or how to ethically apply behaviour science to business (Book review)
In recent years, several notoriously famous incidents of the use of technology to influence peoples’ behaviour without their consent have come to the world’s attention. Whether we are speaking of misuse of social media [...]
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