Being a brown noser’s good for your health

Would you believe sucking up to your boss is beneficial to your well-being?

Besides possibly helping you further your career more quickly, ingratiating yourself to your superior may help you avoid the depression, tension and emotional exhaustion you may experience at the workplace when ignored by your colleagues, says a study published in the Journal of Management Studies.

Kind of makes you want to pick up a latte for boss lady tomorrow morning, doesn’t it?

Stapler, J +/-, Superstore.

2 Comments June 13, 2011

How to love your job more

Were you dreading heading into the office this Monday morning? According to a new study published in the Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology had you done some volunteer work on Sunday evening, the positive psychological benefits of your volunteering could’ve carried on over to today to your full-time gig.

The findings show that that the amount of time spent volunteering in the evening was linked to well-being at one’s work the following day. And even volunteering in stressful, demanding types of roles (say, volunteering for rescue services) benefits you by helping to satisfy needs that aren’t met through work, say mastering new skills and relating to people socially. Plus, the researchers believe your volunteer gig may help you thoroughly disengage from your paid job.

Might make you consider PVRing the Amazing Race on Sunday nights and setting out to do something amazing for someone else instead.

P.S. And if volunteering doesn’t work, whip up these chocolate caramel cookie bars to bring into work — at the very least, you and your colleagues will have a sweet fix to brighten up your daily grind.

1 Comment February 15, 2010

TGIF

No matter what your job is, how interesting it is, how much money you make at it, or if you’re single or married, male or female, your happiness quotient rises on the weekend, says new research published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. This “weekend effect” is linked to the weekends giving you the opportunity to spend your time as you wish, along with it being time to chill out with your BFFs and family — demonstrating just how critical free time is to one’s overall wellbeing.

(Great, now I’m going to have Loverboy’s “Everybody’s Working for the Weekend” stuck in my head all day).

In other research out of the University of Toronto, as many as 50 percent of people bring home work “sometimes” or “frequently.” The study found that the higher status your job, the more it interferes with your personal life.

So this (and I’m basing this on the findings mentioned earlier) is going to majorly ratchet down the happiness levels for many of us. Something to think about if you’re gunning for that corner office. Do you have tips on how to make sure work doesn’t infringe on your personal life? Do share.

P.S. The amazing calendar above btw is called Perpetual Paris — Photo Collage + Perennial  Calendar and it’s from a company called Little Brown Pen. Love it! Get it here.

4 Comments January 15, 2010