Most people reuse the same passwords across dozens of websites
Most people protect their digital lives with a handful of passwords they've memorized—a security practice so common it's become catastrophic.
Work & Digital Life
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133 articles · Work & Digital Life
Dutch court orders firm to pay €75,000 after firing worker who refused nine-hour webcam shift
A Dutch court sided with a worker who refused constant video surveillance, forcing his employer to pay damages—a warning shot across the evolving battle over remote work monitoring.
People who find their entire identity in work lose the ability to recognize when enough is enough
When work becomes your only mirror, you lose the ability to recognize when enough is enough.
Why some people struggle to disconnect from work after they get home
When work won't leave your mind at dinner, it may not be ambition talking—it's a deeper need to prove your worth through constant availability.
Men built more Lego models when their work stayed intact, Harvard study finds
A small Harvard experiment found that men built more Lego models when their finished work remained intact. The result raises a precise question about effort and visible progress.
Why some retirees regret the hours they spent at work
The trap isn't ambition itself—it's mistaking professional indispensability for personal significance, a confusion that leaves many retirees discovering too late that being essential at the office meant nothing once the office no longer called.
Teams got the hiring decision right 15 percent of the time when the newcomer held…
A study of 370 three-person teams varied who held the unshared information the group needed. Teams were less likely to reach the correct decision when the newcomer held it than when one of the originals did. A false status boost did not reliably change that, and the whole thing happened in a text chatroom rather than an office.
Why some people browse social media without posting or commenting
Privacy, observation, low self-presentation motivation and platform habits can all explain why people browse without posting; no single developmental cause is established.
Grant, Gino and Hofmann’s 2011 research found that less-extraverted leaders got…
A field study and T-shirt-folding experiment found that proactive teams performed better under less-extraverted leadership, but the mechanism and evidence have important measurement, generalisation and provenance limits.
Research suggests we file the strangers we deal with under the job independently…
Three preregistered online experiments by Yale researchers, 300 US adults in each, timed how fast people read short stories about ordinary errands. In the first two studies, naming a job kept reading at its usual pace, and departing from what the job licenses slowed it down: its script in the first, its private knowledge in the second. In the third, replacing one job-holder with another read about the same as nobody being replaced at all, though the paper never tests those two conditions against each other. The limits are the authors' own: US participants, US jobs, and roles named in words rather than read off a uniform.
A 2014 analysis by time-tracking app DeskTime found that its top-rated 10% of…
DeskTime's highly rated users averaged 52 minutes of tracked work and 17 minutes away. The pattern challenges continuous busyness, but observational app data cannot establish a causal optimum.
Researchers followed 1,793 BT call-centre workers for six months and found that a…
A six-month BT study linked happier weeks to higher sales through conversion rather than extra hours, but its 12% estimate came from a weather-and-windows natural experiment.