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Remote teams
fromForbes
2 days agoHow To Lead A Workforce That Doesn't Stay In One Place
Work has evolved beyond remote to a fluid, untethered model requiring organizations to support employee mobility effectively.
Remote teams
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago3 Ways Remote Work Exposes People-Pleasing Habits
Remote work can intensify people-pleasing behaviors, leading to increased anxiety and pressure to remain constantly available.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
8 hours agoNot everyone who keeps working after the workday ends is ambitious. Some people simply discovered that the transition from productivity to stillness requires passing through a stretch of feeling they've been avoiding for years, and the extra hour of work is cheaper than the ten minutes of silence. - Silicon Canals
Many work late to avoid confronting uncomfortable emotions, not just to be productive.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 hours agoPsychology says the people who age most visibly aren't the ones with the hardest lives - they're the ones who never learned to put things down, who carried every disappointment and every grievance and every unfairness forward into the next decade, and the carrying shows, eventually, in ways that no amount of sleep or skincare has ever been shown to address - Silicon Canals
Chronic psychological stress and the inability to release emotional burdens accelerate aging and impact physical appearance.
fromSilicon Canals
6 hours agoResearch suggests the loneliness people feel after a long career ends isn't about missing the work - it's about discovering that most of their relationships were infrastructure, not friendship - Silicon Canals
I expected to miss the classroom when I retired. I expected to miss the rhythm of September, the smell of new textbooks, the particular chaos of 28 teenagers discovering The Great Gatsby for the first time. What I did not expect was to sit down one Tuesday morning with my tea and realize that a very large number of people I had genuinely liked... had quietly disappeared from my life.
Retirement
#social-media
Social media marketing
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says people who never post on social media but check it every day aren't passive - they opted out of the performance while keeping the window, and keeping the window without paying the price is the most rational position available and the one the platform was specifically designed to make feel antisocial - Silicon Canals
Silent scrollers on social media actively choose to observe rather than post, demonstrating discipline and self-control contrary to common perceptions.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
15 hours agoI realized at 66 that the reason I'm always tired has nothing to do with sleep. I've been running an internal monitoring system since childhood that tracks other people's moods, and it never shuts off, not even when I'm alone. - Silicon Canals
Emotional exhaustion can stem from lifelong habits of managing others' emotional states, leading to fatigue that sleep cannot alleviate.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoNeuroscience reveals that the calmest person in any crisis isn't naturally fearless - their brain learned to delay panic because their childhood required them to be functional before they were allowed to be afraid - Silicon Canals
Calmness under pressure is a learned response, not merely a personality trait or temperament.
Digital life
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPeople who check their phone within five minutes of waking up are training their brain to start every day in reaction mode - and it's costing them more than they realize - Silicon Canals
Starting the day with phone use can negatively impact mental state and set a stressful tone for the day.
Mindfulness
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
5 hours agoHow to keep your career going in the midst of grief - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Grief can disrupt work, but maintaining structure and realistic expectations helps navigate both loss and professional responsibilities.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoPsychology says keeping your phone on silent isn't a communication preference - it's a nervous system preference, and the people who need it most are often the ones who spent years being on-call for everyone else's emergencies - Silicon Canals
Constant phone notifications can trigger stress responses, leading some to keep their phones on silent as a protective measure for their nervous system.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPsychology explains people who always keep their phone on silent aren't hard to reach - they're hard to interrupt, and the difference between those two things is the difference between a person who decides when to be available and one who simply is, always, at whatever cost - Silicon Canals
Smartphone notifications disrupt concentration for about seven seconds, leading to significant cognitive costs beyond the immediate interruption.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 days agoAI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover | Fortune
Eliminating menial tasks with AI may reduce productivity by removing necessary breaks for mental bandwidth and problem-solving.
Digital life
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoIf someone constantly complains about having no time but scrolls their phone for two hours every evening, something far more serious than poor time management is happening - and these 7 patterns explain the real issue - Silicon Canals
People often claim to have no time, but excessive phone scrolling reveals deeper emotional avoidance issues.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 month ago'AI brain fry' is real - and it's making workers more exhausted, not more productive, new study finds | Fortune
Excessive AI tool usage overwhelms workers, fragmenting attention and reducing productivity despite increased capability, a phenomenon called 'AI brain fry.'
fromFast Company
1 month agoForget 996. The work inbox never sleeps
More than half of professionals check work email outside regular working hours, according to a recent study published by ZeroBounce, surveying 1,157 professionals in the United States and Europe last month. Nearly 3 in 4 professionals feel pressure to respond to emails off the clock, with that pressure intensifying among top earners.
Digital life
fromFuturism
1 month agoAI Use at Work Is Causing "Brain Fry," Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers
One of the reasons we did this work is because we saw this happening to people who were perceived as really high performers. In the study, 14 percent of workers said they had experienced mental fatigue that results from excessive use of, interaction with, and/or oversight of AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity.
Mental health
Digital life
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month agoBreaking free from smartphone addiction: Defensive tactics against those tricky algorithms
Tech companies use manipulative tactics and surveillance to trap users in their platforms, creating widespread anger about digital exploitation and the need for regulatory intervention.
Mindfulness
fromFast Company
1 month ago'Email apnea': Reading work emails makes us forget to breathe
Email apnea occurs when people unconsciously hold or shallow their breath while focused on digital tasks like checking emails, triggered by the nervous system's alert response to perceived uncertainty.
fromFast Company
2 months agoUnwinding with screens may be making us more stressed. Try this instead
I am a professor of public health who studies health behaviors and the gap between intentions and outcomes. I became interested in this self-care paradox recently, after I suffered from a concussion. I was prescribed two months of strictly screen-free cognitive rest-no television, email, Zooming, social media, streaming, or texting. The benefits were almost immediate, and they surprised me. I slept better, had a longer attention span, and had a newfound sense of mental quiet.
Mental health
Digital life
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe reason you feel drained after a day of remote work isn't screen fatigue it's the cognitive cost of performing emotions without a body - Silicon Canals
Video call fatigue stems from performing emotions through a limited physical toolkit, requiring intense cognitive effort to convey feelings that normally flow naturally through the whole body.
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe cognitive damage of doomscrolling is measurable, psychology says, and it can look like anxiety - Silicon Canals
A recent Washington Post piece pulled together what a lot of us have been describing for years: the "brain rot" feeling isn't just slang. Researchers are linking heavy social media use and rapid-fire content to measurable changes in attention and memory, and the way it shows up day-to-day can look a lot like anxiety.
Digital life
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