Knowledge workers usually lack explicit indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable at work, so they turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing multiple tasks in a visible manner.

But doing lots of tasks is shallow work. P...

Microbreaks give workers the license to indulge in what can look suspiciously like time-wasting. 

They enable “psychological detachment”, which occurs when you mentally disengage from work-based tasks and allow your brain to recover: actively shifting the focus of your thoughts, so t...

Epidemiology is the branch of medicine that handles the following:

• Incidence: the occurrence of a disease over a specified period.
• Prevalence: how many people are affected within a population.
• Control of diseases: an appropriate public he...