15-09-01 Ladies, take note: a new study has found that working in a male-heavy environment is bad for you. 女士们，请注意：一项新研究发现，在男性多的环境下工作有害女性身体健康。 Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington found that in industries which a...

15-07-29 Working life can be stressful, with all that smiling and all those expressions. To help with this gigantic problem, a Chinese service company has implemented a No-Face Day , where employees can wear a mask to relieve them from the stress of faking f...

15-07-25 A Spanish mayor has issued an official edict insisting that all those living and working in his town be allowed to take a three-hour nap every afternoon. 西班牙一位市长颁布了一个官方法令，要求所有生活工作在本市的人每天下午午休3小时。 Joan Faus Vitor...

15-07-22 Uncle Sam and Osama decided to settle the whole war with a dogfight. They would each have 5 years to breed the best fighting dog and whoever's dog won would dominate the world. Osama found the meanest Doberman females in the world and bred them with...

15-07-11 Midas Media, located in Melton Mowbrey in the East Midlands, are taking the unique step of paying anybody who attends a job interview with them ￡1,000. What legends eh? The job would be working in digital marketing. 位于英国东部地区梅尔顿莫布雷的米...

15-04-07 A study claims friendly staff receive lower wages than their less agreeable colleagues. Despite working just as hard, they are often reluctant to push for pay rises, too focused on team work and overly concerned about being liked. 有研究称，友好待人...

14-11-06 When you get to where you were intending to go, you forget why you were going there in the first place, which is destinesia . Not to be confused with being stoned, destinesia often occurs during working hours, and is the cause of much frustration....

14-04-16 A penny-pinching farmer didn't want his hired hand to stop working. One morning, he told the farmhand（农场工人） , It's such a nuisance（讨厌，麻烦） to come in from the field, wash up for lunch and take time to eat. Why don't we save time and eat...

14-04-11 瑞典为了减少病假、提高效率，同时也让员工的身心更健康，正在试行6小时工作制。 Hundreds of Swedish workers are trialling a six-hour working day in the hopes that it will cut sick leave and save the country money. In an experiment, workers in one govern...

13-12-24 Humans with a high motor excitability（兴奋性，应激性） have a better working memory than humans with a low excitability. This was shown in a study conducted by scientists from the Transfacultary Research Platform at the University of Basel. By meas...