‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?
Some will question its credibility – but the alternative future to the one imagined in the Global Justice Report is far more bleak
May 2026
The one change that worked
The one change that worked: I struggled to get any work done – until I bought a kitchen timer
After years of procrastination, even the most trivial task felt like climbing a mountain. Then I discovered the pomodoro technique – and how much I could achieve in just 25 minutes
The causes and dire effects of the NHS nurse shortage
Letters: Zoe Anderson says the health service’s rigid working conditions forced her to leave. Plus Jill Whitehead on how a lack of nursing care contributed to her son’s death
Britain pioneered the comfortable retirement – but that golden age is coming to an end
Helen McCarthy
The once inexorable rise in retiree living standards since the second world war has broken down. Can we keep the dream alive for future generations, asks historian Helen McCarthy
April 2026
Pass notes
Bedtime stacking: the cosy way to do chores – or a sleep disaster?
Social media users have been extolling the virtues of going to bed early and giving yourself lots to do there before you drift off. But should our beds just be reserved for sleep and sex?
March 2026
JP Morgan Chase to use computer estimates to monitor hours worked by junior bankers
The Adrian Chiles column
I didn’t know how much I needed work until I lost it. But now I’ve learned to love Mondays again
Adrian Chiles
After-hours work emails should mean Australians get a four-day work week, union tells government
Average UK office attendance ‘settling’ at highest level since before Covid
January 2026
Merz’s party vows to clamp down on Germany’s ‘lifestyle part-time work’
‘Brilliant for work-life balance’: how Britain is embracing the ‘workation’
December 2025
How to have a better day
The perfect working day: how to get everything done – without getting stressed
How to have a better day
The perfect commute: how to turn a frustrating chore into fun – and better fitness
‘The adventure can turn into a disaster’: the digital nomad families ‘worldschooling’ their children
‘Bring it on!’: growing support in England for four-day week in schools
The Guardian view on a four-day week for teachers: a clever way to end the staffing crisis
Japan PM’s pledge to ‘work, work, work, work, and work’ wins catchphrase of year
November 2025
Why thousands of NHS GPs are cutting their hours despite plan to increase access to doctors
Just one in 13 early career GPs work full-time, NHS figures show, with job stress and childcare significant factors
Undisciplined? Entitled? Lazy? Gen Z faces familiar flood of workplace criticism
A new generation of younger workers are being derided as delusional and unreliable, just as millennials were
Even when unthinkable things were happening to me, my first instinct was to work. Am I addicted?
It was only years later, when I heard the word workaholic being used seriously for the first time, that I wondered whether I had a problem
