Here’s what industry leaders think about the future of work, from changing office hours to, yes, staying in the meatspace.

A new study lays out a bit of a conundrum in its opening paragraphs. It notes that scientific progress depends on the ability to update what ideas are considered acceptable in light of new evidence. But science itself has produced no shortage of evidence that people are terrible at updating their beliefs and suffer from issues like confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. Since scientists are, in fact, people, the problems with updating beliefs should severely limit science's ability to progress.

Sometimes, I’ve found myself writing with very broken chunks of time: at its most aggressive, it’ll be on demand and with probably 20 minutes in between meetings, with hard deadlines. Other times, late at night, not by choice. In these times, there’s every reason not to write—distraction, despair, and time pressure, not exactly Neal Stephenson’s four hours. I’ve responded to this by developing and refining one of my favorite techniques—a warm up exercise for my writing: copywork.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos raised a few eyebrows this summer when he returned to Earth after a historic space flight in July and gave a speech thanking company employees and customers, “because you paid for all of this.″ The comments came as Amazon, the second-largest employer in the U.S. after Walmart, has faced persistent allegations regarding workplace safety.

More than ever, workers want to work fewer hours, saying they can be just as effective in less time – and happier, too. They may be on to something.

If you want to know, one hundred percent, that you're not an impostor, do something no impostor would ever do: out yourself. Here's why.

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.