Remote Work
Home-office and distributed-work specific guidance.
Can an AI Companion Fix Loneliness? What the Trials Actually Show
Two large studies, one randomised, agree on an uncomfortable pattern: the people who use AI companions most are the ones doing worst.
Why AI Tools Can Make You More Tired, Not Less
The promise was a lighter workload. The observed pattern was task expansion, blurred role boundaries and cognitive load, mostly self-imposed.
Does Working From Home Affect Your Wellbeing?
The biggest remote-work study ever run found more isolation and distress. A month later another found remote workers had the highest wellbeing. Here is why both…
Does Eating Late Actually Matter?
Identical food, different body. The physiology is now specific rather than suggestive, and what follows for a healthy person is still a separate question.
Is Dry Air the Reason Your Eyes Hurt at Work?
The mechanism is well described and measurable. The obvious fix is where the evidence gets awkward, and the work itself is part of the cause.
Does Media Multitasking Actually Wreck Your Attention?
A famous finding, two direct replications, three meta-analyses, and a small surviving effect that nobody can show is causal.
Does Writing With AI Flatten Your Voice? The Homogenisation Evidence
An experiment where the individual result and the collective result point in opposite directions, and the authors name the structure that produces it.
Does Office Lighting Actually Affect How Alert You Are?
A daylight study with striking results, two brightness studies that found almost nothing, and a distinction between them that explains the field.
Do You Actually Need 10,000 Steps a Day?
The most famous number in health had no research behind it. The research that eventually arrived says something more useful and considerably less demanding.
Does Stuffy Air Make You Worse at Thinking?
A headline finding that sounds too large to be true, a space agency study that could not reproduce it, and a review that locates the disagreement…
Does Office Temperature Affect How Well You Work?
One of the most repeated numbers in workplace science, reanalysed with double the data. The result was not a smaller effect but no detectable relationship.
Does Office Noise Actually Make You Worse at Your Job?
Newer acoustics work found the disruption tracks meaning rather than volume, and that spatial separation does not reduce it. Both are new to this version.
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