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June 24, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Hurting workers—It Might Be Helping

June 23, 2025 — Despite widespread fears, early research suggests AI might actually be improving some aspects of work life. A major new study examining 20 years of worker data in Germany found no signs that AI exposure is hurting job satisfaction or mental health. ...

Brain Drain? More Like Brain Gain: How High-Skilled Emigration Boosts Global Prosperity

May 22, 2025 — As the US national debate intensifies around immigration, a new study is challenging conventional wisdom about 'brain drain'--the idea that when skilled workers emigrate from developing countries, ...

Recognition from Colleagues Helps Employees Cope With Bad Work Experiences

May 14, 2025 — Being appreciated by colleagues can help employees cope with negative experiences at work, according to a new study. Researchers found that employees experience 'embitterment' -- an emotional response to perceived workplace injustice -- on days when ...

Using Principles of Swarm Intelligence, Study Compared Platforms That Allow Brainstorming Among Large Groups

May 4, 2025 — A next-generation technology developed in 2023, conversational swarm intelligence (CSI), combines the principles of ASI with the power of large language ...

Nursing 2025: No Relief in Sight as Burnout, Stress and Short Staffing Persist

May 4, 2025 — A national survey of 2,600 nurses and nursing students reveals a profession under severe strain, with widespread stress, burnout, and staffing shortages threatening both nurse well-being and patient ...

Caspian Sea Decline Threatens Endangered Seals, Coastal Communities and Industry

Apr. 14, 2025 — Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking, research has ...

Conceptualizing Psychological Contract Theory in the Context of Digital Labor Platforms, App Workers, Gig Economy

Apr. 10, 2025 — In a new article, researchers explored whether a worker can create a psychological contract with a non-human agent in the form of an algorithm that mediates their relationship with an ...

Home Care Cooperatives May Be Key to Addressing the Critical Shortage of Caregivers for the Elderly

Apr. 7, 2025 — Home care cooperatives may be the key to alleviating the shortage of paid caregivers for older Americans. Participants in cooperatives experienced more respect, control, job support, and compensation ...

Renting Clothes for Sustainable Fashion -- Niche Markets Work Best

Mar. 28, 2025 — Renting clothes can reduce the fashion industry's enormous environmental impact, but so far, the business models have not worked very well. The best chance of success is for a rental company to provide clothing within a niche market, such as ...

Is Your Job Making You Happy? Insights from Job Satisfaction Data

Mar. 26, 2025 — New research has found that employers and policymakers might want to start paying attention to how workers are feeling, because employee happiness contains critical economic ...

New Research Explores Mental Health Costs of Emotional Labor at Work

Mar. 14, 2025 — 'Fake it till you make it' might be common advice to climb the corporate ladder, but new research shows that this attitude could also adversely affect job satisfaction and mental ...

Impacts of Workplace Bullying on Sleep Can Be 'Contagious' Between Partners

Feb. 21, 2025 — Workplace bullying affects not only the employee's sleep but their partner's too, according to new research published ...

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We Are No Longer Living Longer: Study Across Europe

Feb. 19, 2025 — The rise in human life expectancy has slowed down across Europe since 2011, according to new research. A new study reveals that the food we eat, physical inactivity and obesity are largely to blame, ...

Avoiding the Workplace Mediocrity Trap

Feb. 18, 2025 — Confidence. Persistence. Ingenuity. Conventional wisdom tells us these are some of the traits needed for success at the office. But within teams, less laudable characteristics -- maintaining the ...

Long Drives and High Costs Stand Between Americans and Safe Surgery -- Especially in Rural Areas

Feb. 13, 2025 — When they need surgery, nearly one in three Americans may find themselves in a precarious position: They live more than an hour's drive from a ...

Is the Metaverse a New Frontier for Human-Centric Manufacturing?

Feb. 11, 2025 — The future of manufacturing is not just about machines and AI; it's about re-empowering humans, according to a new ...

Researchers Link India's Food Program to Better Health and Stronger Incomes

Feb. 4, 2025 — Despite humanity's scientific achievements and globalized economy, malnutrition remains a global issue. The United Nations estimated that 2.33 billion people experienced moderate or severe food ...

Optimism Can Boost Saving, Especially for Lower-Income Individuals

Jan. 30, 2025 — Being optimistic about the future may help people save more money, and the effect appears strongest among those with lower incomes, according to new ...

Vacations Are Good for Employee Well-Being, and the Effects Are Long Lasting

Jan. 27, 2025 — If you're like many Americans, you probably didn't take all your vacation time this year. Even if you did, it's highly likely you didn't fully unplug ...

Why Are Most Companies Failing to Benefit from AI? It's About the People Not the Tech

Jan. 23, 2025 — Successful uptake of new technology is a matter of emotions -- and with 4 in 5 companies saying they're failing to capitalize on its potential, ...

Is There Really a Mid-Career Crisis? Job Satisfaction Follows a U-Shaped Curve Only Among Highly Skilled Workers, According to New Study

Jan. 9, 2025 — Contrary to the long-held belief that the mid-career crisis plagues everyone, new research suggests that job satisfaction follows a U-shaped ...

Adoption of AI Calls for New Kind of Communication Competence from Sales Managers

Dec. 11, 2024 — Artificial intelligence, AI, is rapidly transforming work also in the financial sector. A recent study explored how integrating AI into the work of ...

Basketball Analytics Investment Is Key to NBA Wins and Other Successes

Mar. 25, 2025 — A study finds NBA teams that hired more analytics staff, and invested more in data analysis, tended to win more ...

Gender Plays a Role in Long-Term Unemployed Individuals' Perception of Their Capabilities

Feb. 25, 2025 — A study shows that long-term unemployed individuals perceive their capabilities as weaker than the general Finnish population. Capabilities refer to the opportunities to achieve important things in ...

Long COVID's Effects on Employment: Financial Distress, Fear of Judgment

Dec. 16, 2024 — Though research has shown that people with long COVID are more likely to be unemployed, the statistics don't reveal what patients go through before they cut their hours, stop working or lose ...

Work Satisfaction, Pay Are Worse for Those Who Stutter, Study Finds

Dec. 10, 2024 — People who stutter have lower earnings, experience underemployment and express lower job satisfaction than those who don't stutter, a new study ...

'Jekyll and Hyde' Leaders Do Lasting Damage, New Research Shows

Nov. 16, 2024 — Employees struggle when supervisors swing between good and bad ...

Building a Diverse Wildland Fire Workforce to Meet Future Challenges

Nov. 12, 2024 — Wildland firefighters are under significant strain, often overworked and underpaid despite the growing need to respond to larger, more destructive fires. Building a more resilient and effective ...

Grabbing Pizza With Coworkers Isn't Just Fun -- It Could Boost Your Teamwork Skills

Nov. 12, 2024 — Forming memories around shared experiences, whether something fun like grabbing a pizza or as emotionally straining as an employee strike, has a way of binding people together. But it could also ...

Effects of Preterm Birth Extend Into Adulthood, Study Finds

Nov. 6, 2024 — By analyzing all live births in Canada over a six-year period and following children for more than two decades, researchers found that preterm births and the related cognitive, development and ...

Lack of Health Insurance Coverage Contributes to Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advanced-Stage Diagnosis of Multiple Cancers, Study Finds

Oct. 30, 2024 — A new, large study found that lack of health insurance coverage accounts for a significant proportion of racial and ethnic disparities in advanced-stage diagnosis of multiple ...

Psychologists Develop Tool to Assess Narcissism in Job Candidates

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers developed a tool for job interviews to assess narcissistic grandiosity among potential job ...

Early Active Learning Boosts Skills for Children Born Into Extreme Poverty, but Gains Fade for Black Boys, Study Shows

Oct. 23, 2024 — Research findings provide further evidence that early childhood education can improve educational outcomes for low-income Black children, but that subsequent experiences may erode those impacts ...

Workplace Culture and Social Relationships Are Associated With Workplace Bullying

Oct. 22, 2024 — Workplace bullying poses a serious threat to employees' health and well-being. A study sheds new light on the impact of social relationships on workplace bullying. Focusing on the dynamics of ...

Manliness Concerns Impede Forgiveness of Coworkers

Oct. 17, 2024 — The more men are concerned about appearing masculine, the less likely they will forgive a co-worker for a transgression such as missing an important meeting, a study has found. What's more, such ...

Transition to a Circular Bioeconomy Requires Getting Prices Right

Oct. 8, 2024 — A circular bioeconomy that reduces and recycles waste, transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable bio-based alternatives, and regenerates natural systems is critical for feeding and fueling the ...

Despite Medical Advances, Life Expectancy Gains Are Slowing

Oct. 7, 2024 — After nearly doubling over the 20th century, the rate of increase in life expectancy has slowed considerably in the last three decades, according to a new ...

Indigenous U.S. Farm Workers Face Greater Job-Related Pain Compared to Undocumented Peers

Sep. 30, 2024 — Farming is a notoriously hard profession with long hours spent operating dangerous equipment and performing other arduous tasks. New research finds that indigenous farm employees -- many of whom have ...

Vast 'Stranded Assets' If World Continues Investing in Polluting Industries

Sep. 30, 2024 — Continued investment in carbon-intensive industries will drastically increase the amount of 'stranded assets' as the world moves to net-zero emissions, researchers ...

The Heart of the Question: Who Can Get Medicare-Covered Weight Loss Medicine?

Sep. 23, 2024 — With Medicare now covering semaglutide for people with obesity and cardiovascular disease who don't have diabetes, a study looks at who that might include, depending on what cutoffs prescription ...

Networks of Beliefs Theory Integrates Internal and External Dynamics

Sep. 19, 2024 — The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief-network ...

Study Reveals Gaps in Access to Long-Term Contraceptive Supplies

Sep. 19, 2024 — Researchers find that despite the enactment of 12-month contraceptive supply policies in 19 U.S. states, most patients do not receive a long-term ...