UK workers are taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade, research suggests. Staff took on average 7.8 sick days in the past year, up from 5.8 before the pandemic. The Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) analysed sickness absence and employee health among 918 organisations representing 6.5 million employees, with 76% of respondents reporting they had taken time off due to stress in the past year. Stress was one of the biggest contributors to a rise in workplace absences over the past year. Report finds stress as one of the main contributors to absence as staff take 7.8 days off a year on average. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/26/number-of-workers-taking-sick-leave-hits-10-year-high
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People who work remotely could have a 54 per cent lower carbon footprint than those who work in an office, a new study has found. The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal. The findings come as employees gradually return to the office following the major growth of hybrid and remote work catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, which focused on the United States, analyzed the environmental implications of remote, hybrid and fully on-site work. Lifestyle along with the amount of time spent working from home appeared to make the most significant impact on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2304099120
Research suggests that people don’t become adults until they’re in their 30s. They suggest that the brains of eighteen-year-olds are still undergoing significant changes, making it more of a nuanced transition into adulthood. Professor Peter Jones from Cambridge University emphasized that the shift from childhood to adulthood occurs over three decades, challenging the notion of a clear-cut age marker for adulthood. While it is hard to place a "one-size fits all" age marker, scientists believe this number to be closer to 30. https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/people-become-adults-30s-research What are your thoughts?
Postdoctoral researcher(s) in Political Science at the V-Dem Institute. Deadline: November 15, 2023. Link: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=31769
Sleep research is increasingly following the idea of chronotypes — that we all have a natural, genetic inclination to snooze at similar times each day. Sleep specialist Dr Michael Breus splits the chronotypes into four categories: the bear, wolf, lion and dolphin, saying that 55% of people are bears, who rise with the sun and fall asleep by about 10pm, and that the world caters to that chronotype. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/chronotypes
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V-Dem is a research project that aims to measure and compare different aspects of democracy across countries and time. It provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. https://v-dem.net/ I had the privilege to contribute to this project as a country representative in the last two years.
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