Spend all day in your PJs, crank the music and check Facebook as often as you want. Apparently working from home is really as awesome as it sounds, for both you and your employer. A recent study found that workers who telecommuted to work were both more productive and less stressed than their office-bound coworkers. […]
You’ve had a good year; you got a bonus and a raise, so you’re so much happier, right? Well, if you’re what a recent study calls a “frustrated achiever” probably neither of those things made you any happier. A frustrated achiever is defined in the study as “an individual[s] who reports, in a given year […]
While it seems that traditionally discrimination in the workplace is directed at women, it turns out that it goes both ways. A recent study reported that though you can be whatever you want to be, if you are in a position usually occupied by the opposite sex, you may have just a little more to […]
People always say that money can’t buy happiness, but can it help? A new study found that while money cannot buy happiness, it can contribute to an individual’s overall life evaluation (i.e. looking at where your life is compared to where you want it to be) but has little to moderate effect on positive or negative feelings about your […]
Workplace stress is all too common in our society. Chances are if for any reason you are unhappy with your job you can probably classify yourself in one of these categories: there’s the “frenetic” type who are usually involved and ambitious workers who are willing to sacrifice their health and personal lives for their jobs; […]
Retirement saving has been something that many people have put on the back burner. The act of retiring may seem like an impossibility and in reality, retiring fully has become more difficult. Well, you can retire…as long as you get another job. Preferably with health insurance. Retirement in the U.S. usually involves Social Security, employer pensions […]
Frequent flyer miles aren’t the only benefit of all that business travel - you might be doing your overall health a big favor, too. In a recent study, researchers found that those who traveled up to 6 nights per month on business related travel actually had a better health profile than those who didn’t travel […]
With the unemployment rate continuing to hover around 10 percent, finding a job is not so easy for a lot of people these days. However, there is one section of the population for whom obtaining employment is especially difficult: obese women. Recent research has uncovered that obese women are less likely to be hired, therefore […]
