Obviously, your career growth largely depends on your professional skills and on how much you contribute to achieving the common goal. However, how your colleagues see you matters a lot, too. So the impression you create could affect your chances to climb up the ladder. Full story

What things do steal our precious time from us? Apart from external time eaters (which are beyond our influence), there are many personal ones which actually make us the robbers of our own time. These time eaters lurk in our personalities and individual qualities which hinder the job, leading to stresses and the realization of lagging behind. Full story

Everyone knows that physical exercises promote health while sedentary job deteriorates it. Still, not a single office clerk has challenged its employer with claims for work-related injury payouts so far. The first ever to this were 37 Danish women who were recently awarded damages for their work-related injuries claim. Full story

According to Finnish scientists, working extra hours is linked to nervous disorders and may even lead to mental retardation. So the scientists urge workaholics to come to their senses. It is not that you have to sit around all day long, just make sure you don’t work yourself into Alzheimer’s disease. Full story

Women who work the night shifts or work very late into the night at the office are often insomniac. How can you fight sleeping problems? Working at night is stressful for our body. We were biologically designed to be active during the day and rest at night. The way our body functions and the type of hormones it produces differ depending on whether we are asleep or awake. If your sleeping schedule is off track, it can disturb the normal sleep-awake cycle. The body becomes unable to function the way it is supposed to. That leads to insomnia and health problems. Here are some tips on how to mitigate effects of disturbed cycle. Full story

Physiologists and sociologists already found the gloomiest and the happiest days of the year (January, 21 and June, 20 respectively). Now they got down to the days of week. They finally figured out that the hardest day is Wednesday, not Monday as we all believe. Full story

If you think working the night shift is safe to your health, you make a mistake. In fact, experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) classify night work as carcinogen. WHO is officially announcing their findings as early as in December of this year. The organization is also going to insist on putting night shift jobs on the list of perceived carcinogens. Full story

Do you often experience a job-related stress? You come back home exhausted and you wished it were Sunday again? Do you think nothing could be harder than your job? American Physiological Association decided to make a list of the most stressful jobs. Top jobs on the list are those many people just dream of getting. Full story