Do you feel you're better focused on the job with a little light background jazz or coffee shop chatter compared to pin-drop silence? Scientists might know why. According to Onno van der Groen, a ...

When stay-at-home orders went into place, I was very fortunate that working from home (or remotely) was a situation I was already accustomed to. I had perfected my WFH routine, but not being able to ...

Remember that blog I wrote about how to work in a coffee shop? It turns out I may have been on to something scientific there. A new study published by the Sauder School of Business at the University ...

There’s a reason your favorite coffeehouse is packed with patrons wielding laptop computers, and it has nothing to do with free wi-fi. Studies suggest that working amid clinking cups and light ...

Erin Perkins is an editor of Eater’s South region, covering Atlanta, Nashville, Miami, New Orleans, and the Carolinas. She has been writing about the food scene in the Carolinas and Savannah for 12 ...

Consider space. This is something we don’t think about, not really. We consider it with our homes, but only to an extent. I think about it in other places like New York where you learn to live without ...

It can be hard to do creative work in a noisy cubicle, but a silent office isn't ideal, either. Indeed, a new paper published in the Journal of Consumer Research says that the perfect working ...

Do you feel you're better focused on the job with a little light background jazz or coffee shop chatter compared to pin-drop silence? Scientists might know why. According to Onno van der Groen, a ...