Recovery during Lunch Breaks: Testing Long-Term Relations with Energy Levels at Work
Recovering from work stress can restore energy and mental resources and decrease the development of fatigue, sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease.
Recovering from work stress can restore energy and mental resources and decrease the development of fatigue, sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease.
Planning tends to up the chance of business success by between 10% and 20%.
Plans help generate agreement, surface assumptions, ensure things aren’t missed, and highlight potential dangers.
Studies consistently show that multitasking is inefficient.
Shifting between tasks can cost you up to 40% of productive time.
Rest can facilitate the consolidation of newly formed memories. Even a few minutes of rest with closed eyes can improve memory, perhaps to the same degree as a full night of sleep.
Poor quality sleep can result in bad leadership and an un-productive team.
It is associated with leader daily abusive behaviours and ego depletion, which in turn affects work engagement and performance.
Worrying about their next workday during the evening, is associated with employees’ well-being even before employees are facing it.
A University of California study found that after each interruption it takes over 23 minutes to refocus.
Chronic multitaskers perform worse on core multitasking skills: memory management, cognitive filtering and task switching, likely due to their inability to filter irrelevant stimuli.