There’s a pervasive crime being committed in the business world: the fetishization of doing, at the expense of thinking. From meetings to deadlines to notifications to obligations, everybody is ...

If you’re on a quest to be more productive, you might assume that you need to use every minute in the day to, well, accomplish something. But pushing yourself to work harder and faster doesn’t ...

To cope with these demands, a new generation of focus apps has burst onto the productivity scene. These apps use gamification ...

When’s the last time you actually turned your computer off instead of putting it to sleep? I’m not sure I have since the ’90s—that is, until a few weeks ago. Now I turn it off every night, and it’s ...

Americans experience happiness in various ways. One way is by spending time with family. Another is by pursuing personal passions. Yet another is by finding satisfaction in their jobs. Recent data ...

That relentless drive to stay busy might actually be sabotaging your productivity. While our culture celebrates constant motion and perpetual optimization, emerging research suggests that deliberately ...

You’d think if you met the executive productivity advisor at Google, she’d give you endless tips on how to go, go, go, right? Well, yes—but also, Laura Mae Martin knows the power of slowing down, too.

One of the brighter spots in this economy over the last few years has been labor productivity: how much stuff we’re all making compared to how much time we’re doing it. Productivity increased 1.2% in ...

It doesn’t matter if you work from a cubicle, couch or cafe — if the (remote) office culture is broken, productivity will suffer. Productivity thrives on culture, not location — prioritize ...

When you're at work, it's tempting to make it look like you're drowning in tasks, even when you're not. We've all been there, trying to appear busy when the workload is light or the motivation is low.

While general purpose chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT are the focus of initial AI consumer hype, AI products with much more specific applications have begun to proliferate. The biggest boom is perhaps ...