Roy Can'tTed Lasso’s New Season Drives Home Our Disillusionment With Work Culture Today The first episode of season three highlights how work culture interferes with love and loss. By Amlan Sarkar
Momentous ShiftsThe Conversations That Inspired Passion This Year The year’s biggest cultural shifts in politics, environment, society, and work. By The Swaddle Team
Sorting HatMyers‑Briggs Test Has Been Debunked Time and Again. Why Do Companies Still Use It? "These personality types actually limit the scope of what a person can, or cannot do, at the office." By Saumya Kalia
Corporate Cop OutEmployee Wellness Programs Can’t Fix a Broken System Whose goals are central to the therapeutic process – the employer’s, or the employee’s? By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Be Right BackTaking 10‑Minute ‘Micro‑Breaks’ Helps Prevent Burnout, Shows Study A meta-analysis of 22 studies shows micro-breaks of people walking around or watching something help to reduce fatigue. By Saumya Kalia
Time to SnoozeWhy Young Indians Continue to Sacrifice Sleep The fight to save sleep and value rest is more complicated than it appears. By Saumya Kalia
Not TodayDoes ‘Laziness’ Exist? Research Says, It’s Complicated We've lost sight of what laziness really is, why we demonize it, and if it exists beyond being a manifestation of our anxieties. By Saumya Kalia
Suck My SoulHow ‘Energy Vampires’ at Work Can Leave People Drained This particular species of colleagues trap or corner people into conversations, so much that it indirectly disrupts the flow of work. By Saumya Kalia
Are You Ready?Work Hours May Shift in Cities Like Mumbai, New Delhi Due to Global Warming The researchers warned that every rising degree of temperature would result in "exponential, not linear, losses in labor productivity.” By Devrupa Rakshit
Hashtag Live Laugh Be BrokeSocial Media Says Quitting Jobs Is ‘Self‑Care.’ What Could Go Wrong? By encouraging resignations with versions of #loveyourself, social media culture ignores social security for young people. By Saumya Kalia
Battle Against BiasAccountability Alone Isn’t Enough to Suppress Workplace Bias: Study "Feelings of regret for not following their personal preferences are so strong that people tend to reverse their unbiased decisions." By Devrupa Rakshit
Snooze AwayHow Daydreaming Inspires Productivity at Work Mind-wandering spurs creativity and planning, putting off immediate desires in favor of future rewards. By Saumya Kalia
All Work And No HealthLong Working Hours Pose a “Serious Health Hazard”: WHO The surge in remote working during Covid19 also increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, experts say. By Devrupa Rakshit
Work crisisILO Report Shows Indians Are the Most Overworked Globally, and Among the Worst Paid in Asia India's minimum wages are also the lowest in the world. By Saumya Kalia
WFH For The WinWork‑From‑Home Improved People’s Mental Health, Productivity, Survey Finds The survey of more than 10,000 Indians also found people were divided on whether or not they'd like to work from offices again. By Devrupa Rakshit
Feeling Blue?Has Work‑From‑Home Eliminated ‘Monday Blues’ Or Made Them Worse? The dilution of the work-and-home boundary has made Monday anxiety worse for some. By Devrupa Rakshit