Think your brain is like your smartphone battery - and just like your phone, it slowly drains throughout the day. When you are working or studying hard, your brain has to resist distractions in order ...

Normalizing taking a full hour’s lunch break is as easy as normalizing eating a sandwich over a keyboard. Don’t we all know by now that rest is a critical piece of the productivity puzzle? Taking ...

Nurses in critical care units who perceive higher levels of teamwork with their colleagues are more likely to take breaks ...

In many work cultures, people assume the best employees work non-stop while sustaining good performance. Taking breaks during work hours is often seen as a waste of time (Lim, 2002). But is that ...

As a health and lifestyle writer, I’ve tried plenty of the latest health hacks, such as hurkle-durkling (as fun to do as it is to say), wearing a weighted vest (somewhat less fun but still useful), ...

While logic might suggest that getting more done means operating in a constant state of productivity, the opposite can actually be true: When you hit that afternoon slump and can’t seem to push ...

For many of us, being productive means spending more time working. It seems intuitive that the more time we spend on job tasks, the more we can get done. And not surprisingly, the popular literature ...

Even once the summer vacation season winds down, people shouldn’t stop taking breaks throughout their workdays, says Melissa Painter, CEO and founder of Breakthru, an app that guides users through two ...