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Do sex differences in hormone cycles make 9-5 workdays better suited to men?
Some people claim that men and women typically have different hormonal cycles, and that the 9-5 workday was designed for, and is better suited for, men.
For example:
Why the 9-5 workday was built for ...
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Is the average office worker only productive for 3 hours a day?
A recent answer on StackExchange linked to a blog post claiming that:
Research suggests that in an eight-hour day, the average worker is only productive for two hours and 53 minutes.
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Is Alnatura preventing unionizing of its workers?
Alnatura is a German producer of organic food. The German newspaper taz has repeatedly claimed that Alnatura is trying to prevent the forming of a Betriebsrat (Works council).
In October of 2015, ...
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Does "dressing for the job you want" help promotion?
There is a saying:
Dress for the job you want, not the one you have.
I have always understood this as implying that this is a way to help attain "the job you want".
This article references a fairly ...
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Does caffeine increase productivity in office jobs?
There is a common conception amongst coffee drinkers (including myself) that drinking coffee increases productivity in office jobs. Is this true? Have there been any definitive studies which link ...
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Are suicide rates among millenials increasing?
Simon Sinek claims in this video (at about 9:40min) that the suicide rates and the accidental drug overdoses among young people from the so-called "millennial" generation are increasing at the moment. ...
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Did a man in France sue his employer because he was bored at work?
According to this article, a man from France sued his employer for $400,000 because he was bored at work.
The article also states:
He was later fired after a car crash caused him to go on prolonged
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Do construction workers usually work for 14 hours a day in Dubai?
This post on Quora says:
500USD/month, construction work 14 hours/day, average temperature 40℃
I found this Daily Mail article with the heading, "The side of Dubai that they DON'T want tourists to ...
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Is it possible for a working person remain healthy just by 4 hours sleep a day? [closed]
Due to work pressure, I'm feeling that 24 hours is not enough to finish it in deadline. I've tried it for two days but felt impossible. I'd heard that successful person do not sleep long. I don't know ...
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Do London underground drivers earn more and work less than NHS doctors?
This Facebook photo protesting the recent London underground (Tube) strikes claims that London underground drivers earn more money and have less working hours than National Health Service (NHS) ...
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Are 'user-adjustable' thermostats in offices usually 'dummies'?
An example here at WSJ and here, but seen around the internet (often grouped together with anecdotes about dummy "walk" buttons and elevator "close door" buttons):
Looking for an ...
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Do longer work weeks result in less productivity for knowledge workers?
There are lot of articles on the internet that talk about diminishing productivity in relation to overtime and include graphs like the following:
but I cannot seem to find a reputable and scientific ...
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Does prison work reduce recidivism?
I'm having difficulty finding statistics comparing the recidivism rates of regular prisoners and the ones that worked while serving the sentence. I can't remember where but I've read that "specialists ...
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Will using auto-darkening welding helmets damage your vision?
I've been told in person, and seen repeated on many a forum, that auto-darkening welding helmets are dangerous and that anyone who uses one eventually needs glasses.
However, I have been unable to ...
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Did a US software developer outsource his own job to China?
I heard this story repeated by various news sites about a software developer in the US who outsourced his own job to China, without his employer's knowledge
The original source is is Verizon's ...
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Can boredom at workplace be attributed to poor working conditions?
In an article I read recently the author mentions a certain study. He claims that it showed that people are likely to judge a task "boring", when in truth it was not, but there were low-intensity ...
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Do police officers and firefighters have a shorter than average life expectancy?
I have run across several references that mention that police officers and firefighters have a much shorter life expectancy than average. Is this claim true? Are there any reputable studies that have ...
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What study showed that using headphones to drown out office noise is detrimental?
I was watching an interview with Spolsky and he mentioned some study that showed listening to music with headphones caused a drop in having "deep thoughts"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8ZVB-v3IM#...
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Is it preferable to use a computer in a darkened room?
In his latest blog post, Jeff Atwood states:
We computer geeks like it dark. Really dark. Ideally, we'd be in a cave. A cave … with an internet connection.
The one thing that we can't abide is direct ...
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Is Tuesday a better day for Press Releases and similar information?
I remember reading an article about Tuesday being the best day to get maximum reach for your message. I think this study came from Harvard. The content of the message could be PR or some other ...
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