Employees at Microsoft Japan worked four days a week, enjoyed a three-day weekend — and got their normal, five-day paycheck. As part of the trial, the company also capped meetings at 30 minutes.

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

The anti-distraction device is the modern mousetrap: build a better one, and the world will beat a path to your door.

As restrictions continue to lift and companies prepare to bring employees back to the workplace, many workers don’t want to return to the office full-time. Technology professionals are no exception. In fact, 86 per cent of them want a work from home arrangement after the pandemic, according to a survey by tech job market platform Hackajob, which shared its findings exclusively with City A.M.

how to motivated yourself everyday when you wake up? In this post, you will discover 10 simple ways to start your days feeling energized and motivated.

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it has mitigated an issue with its Microsoft 365 services and features, including workplace messaging app Teams and Azure, after many users were unable to access them.

Virtual assistants are one click—but often one continent—away. A new industry for bringing order to our work lives could shift the order of our workforce.

How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to.

When are we most likely to do our best work? New research shows that, on average, our brains work best in the middle of the day – if asked to perform abstract, logical or problem-solving tasks.

The idea of the four-day work week has gained new currency as the pandemic has transformed the way people work. What are the pros and cons, and practicalities, of switching to it?

In popular culture, there’s an idea that lots of successful people are… well, not that nice. From Glengarry Glen Ross to The Apprentice, there’s a litany of bad bosses and aggressive success stories in film and television. The message seems to be that to get ahead you need to ditch the niceties and think about number one.

Marc Andreessen on how he spends his time, learns, the 'build' essay and much more.

The Covid-19 crisis has distanced people from the workplace, and employers have generally, if sometimes reluctantly, accepted that people can work effectively from home. As if to compensate for this distancing and keep the workplace alive in a virtual sense, employers have also encouraged people to stick closely to the conventional workday. The message is that working from home is fine and can even be very efficient — as long as people join video calls along with everyone else all through the day.

In my paint-workshop (and household) open source software rules and eases the dreaded life as an artist. This little text is not meant to complain, but merely a small oversight of what software is actually used in said workshop. And, thanks to an economic crisis and corona, I have the time to doodle about it.

The concept of a four-day workweek is not a new one, but it's gained traction amid the pandemic as companies have been required to adapt.

Before, I was a train wreck that ate too many cinnamon rolls and watched Netflix while laying in sweats on the couch. Today, I ran 3 miles, did 40 minutes of yoga, meditated, ate steel cut oats with berries for breakfast, then turned on my favorite business podcast while I showered, all before work.

It took me 10 years to finish my PhD, so I would assume my procrastination skills are not that bad ;) Fortunately, nowadays, I use some basic rules to fight procrastination and have become quite efficient with it. The following three basic rules helped me a lot to organize myself.

Millions of Americans are taking part in an unprecedented experiment in working from home. Many are happier, more efficient and want to hang onto the benefits when the pandemic ends.

CEOs across industries are reconsidering their real estate footprint after seeing the success of remote work — threatening the office as we know it.

We’re surrounded by distractions — people, technology, media — all the time. But what if the biggest culprit behind our lagging productivity is us?