8 Foods That Make You Unproductive at Work

If you have a desk job, I’m sure by now you’ve heard the mantra, “sitting is the new smoking.” And, if you’re like most working Americans, you’re at that job for far more hours than you’re playing sports, chasing after your kids or otherwise moving. That’s why today, more than ever, it’s important to make … Read more

Study Explores How to Increase Productivity by Stopping Cyberloafing

A new study by Matthew McCarter, associate professor of management at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), looks into the bane of managers in nearly every industry: employees slacking off by excessively surfing the Internet, an activity known as cyberloafing. “Leisure surfing can be helpful,” McCarter said. “It relieves stress and can help … Read more

Corporations’ Newest Productivity Hack: Meditation

Since I started meditating two years ago, my practice has been shamefully sporadic. When I do manage to stop what I’m doing and sit down, device-free, I find following my breath to be a relief from—and a contrast to—what happens at work. But as David Gelles observes in his new book, that contrast is dissolving, … Read more