Monthly Archives: December 2011

Few places of work allow their employees to take their work out of the office, but if the findings of new research are anything to go by, more managers may be encouraged to allow their staff to work from home or on the move occasionally. There is evidence to show that flexible workplaces promote better health behaviour and wellbeing, according to a study of 608 white-collar employees by the University of Minnesota, published in this month's Journal of Health and Social Behaviour (December 6th). ...

Contestants on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! have ditched their extravagant lifestyles and double beds with storage for a back-to-basics existence in the jungle, the first stages of which were aired on this year's opening episode on Sunday. It seemed that early signs this year's stars feeling uncomfortable in their new home arose when they were asked to sleep in a rather unconventional bed in a cave. In an interview with the Daily Mirror (November 14th), a source of the show reportedly...

Sleeping problems have been known to plague a great number of individuals. However, it has been revealed that half of us - 51 per cent - have trouble drifting off to sleep each night and may suffer from associated problems as a result. In the largest study of sleep patterns ever conducted in Britain, Professor Colin Espie, sleep expert at the University of Glasgow and co-founder of Sleepio observed the results of interviews with 12,000 adults and found that women experience the sleeping problems...