Tips for Working at Home
	Due to the phenomenal growth of the Internet, which basically abolished distance, increased accessibility to information and gave instant communications a huge boost, working from home is no longer a fantasy, but rather a solid, modern-day reality. Millions of people around the world do it and it's working out just well for them – however, many of those who have traditional desk jobs and contemplate working from home still f ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Sleep, No Sex
	There is a flow of researches showing how the lack of sleep impacts your brain functions, from learning to memory. But the impact on people's life is much more severe than it could be guessed, plummeting productivity, safety, health, relationships and... sex. Too much work and too little sleep resulted in the fact that 20% of the Americans have lost interest in sex. This is the result of a research made by the National Slee ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Flexible Workplace Means Healthier Employees
	Which is the way to get the best from the employees? Tough programs won't work; it seems that it is rather about workplace flexibility and if this is perceived as real by the employees, whose lifestyles and health will improve in this case, as shown by a new study carried on by Dr. Joseph G. Grzywacz, of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and published in "The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine". In t ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Six Issues About Work
	1. Scientific research showed that the health of those whose work does not solicit them too much is prone to many risks compared to the health of other categories. Employees having boring jobs, requiring repeating the same movements or a lack of independence get sick twice more often than the others. No other stress factor connected to work affects more the frequency and duration of absenteeism than boredom at the workplace. People with bo ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gays' Discrimination at the Workplace Decreases Productivity
	Being gay in a straight society is a difficult task, as rejection comes from all sides. A new research made on over 500 American gay, lesbian and bisexual employees discovered that "fears about disclosing a gay identity at work had an overwhelmingly negative relationship with their career and workplace experiences and with their psychological well-being." "These findings were both striking and disturbing; those who report ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 08:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Not Safe for Work
	We all know Facebook is a real phenomenon on the Internet but when it is accessed from other places than your personal computer, it instantly becomes a serious matter. Security company Sophos conducted a special research to find out how many employees access Facebook from work and how often they do it. No more than 37.2 percent of the total 500 Facebook users who answered the questionnaire said they access the social network webs ... [read more >>]
	29 October 2007, 11:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Tips to Improve Your Work Efficiency
	Yeah... another day in the salt mines...and that dickhead boss of yours accusing you of killing time all day... and Monday... Who the heck invented that day, after all!? This is a lost day... Your friends start telling you stories of places they’ve been to, where they traveled in the weekend or how they did partied all night, while you start thinking that time passes and you haven’t had too many exciting experience in your life... and w ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 07:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Not Get Fat While at Work
	Most jobs contribute to our sedentary life, and this combined to a disordered feeding pattern, will make you fat. In fact, 50 % of the employees gain weight while at work. 20 % of them put on some extra 5 kilograms (12 pounds), and 10 % some 9 kilograms (20 pounds). The daily program won't let you go to the gym and most people do not know how to eat healthy. Moreover, coffee and sweets machines are common inside the companies, ins ... [read more >>]
	15 September 2007, 08:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do You Play Games at Work?
	The market research Information Solutions Group conducted a survey concerning the employees who play games at work, revealing that no less than 24 percent of the respondents admitted they played video games during the working day. The research included 2,842 employees and was conducted by PopCap.com, a website which is focused only on gaming content. According to Reuters, 8 percent of the companies' executive also play games ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Free Porn Attracts Employees
	A new survey conducted by Money Supermarket revealed that the Internet users are very attracted by pornography but what's more interesting is that many of them intend to download adult material at work. According to Web User, no less than 8 percent of the users who usually download porn want to do it at work, an activity that would surely reduce the work efficiency and employees' performances. It was revealed that most ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Greatest Workplace Annoyance: The Loud Talker
	While in the office, I've got some amazing information. For example, which the likes and dislikes of my co-worker's cat are, where the cat pees, and that in Siberia (man!?!) there really are killer trees! And how to drink barrels of booze, pig out like nobody else does, kick the a*s of a mother f**ker while you’re out with your "gang". Not to mention the endless explanations on how to train your muscles using a Power Ba ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Swedes Love Telecommuting
	2007's summer found the Swedish people with a greater desire to work outside the office than ever. TeliaSonera, a leading mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland, recently conducted a survey that shows the Swedes are about to set a new record when it comes to working outside th ... [read more >>]
	28 June 2007, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Being a Genius Is Due to Hard Work, Not High IQ
	Do they call you dumb, a**hole, sucker, idiot and so on? It does not matter, one day you could be (might become) a genius. A roundup of IQ studies from Cambridge University Press, shows that being a genius means 99 % hard work. "There are international chess masters that have below-average IQs," said author Dr. K. Anders Ericsson, a professor of psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee. "Basically, th ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2007, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia