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September 9, 2010

Empowering Workers: Designing Your Own Workspace Improves Health, Happiness And Productivity

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Employees who have control over the design and layout of their workspace are not only happier and healthier - they're also up to 32% more productive, according to new research from the University of Exeter in the UK...

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September 7, 2010

Designing your own workspace improves health, happiness and productivity

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Employees who have control over the design and layout of their workspace are not only happier and healthier -- they're also up to 32 percent more productive, according to new research.

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July 30, 2010

Driven By Coffee: Creating a Culture of Productivity

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Today's post is the last in a three-part series on coffee. Monday's post investigated how coffee came to be such an integral part of everyday life. Wednesday's post provided a history of the coffee bean's travels around the globe. And today's discussion considers the social place of coffee in our lives. Be sure to go back and read the others if you've missed them!_________________________________

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January 3, 2010

For Depressed Workers, Stress On Job Lowers Productivity

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A new study shines a light on depression in the workplace, suggesting that psychological stress at the office or wherever people earn their paychecks can make it more difficult for depressed workers to perform their jobs and be productive. "There is a large economic cost and a human cost," said study lead author Debra Lerner, Ph.D...

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May 29, 2009

Social Loafing: When Groups Are Bad for Productivity

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› When social loafing strikes and how it can be reduced.Groups can be fantastically unproductive because they provide such wonderful camouflage. Under cover of group work people will slack off, happy in the knowledge others are probably doing the same. And even if they're not: who'll know?This is what psychologists have nattily called social loafing [...]» Visit happier.com for tools and te

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