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How to handle working from home with a spouse | Improve tough employee conversations | Walmart, Target put millions toward front-line workers

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March 24, 2020

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Try to avoid panic-working The stress of the coronavirus outbreak, transition to remote work and the unemployment spike can push employees to panic-work, writes Gianpiero Petriglieri, who points to theories that say we panic-work to prove our immortality. "Stop pretending that if you work harder it will be business as usual. Accept disorientation and distress," he writes. Full Story: Bloomberg (tiered subscription model) (3/24)

How to handle working from home with a spouse Adjusting to remote work can be hard, especially alongside a partner or spouse. To get along and stay productive, split up chores, pretend each other is at work and set up break time to connect, suggests Jeanne Muchnick. Full Story: USA Today (3/23)

Improve tough employee conversations Handling tough conversations at work means engaging directly with others, and improv specialist and founder of www.ImprovEdge.com Karen Hough has tips for how to do that. First, offer employees choices and be transparent -- then use the improv technique of "yes, and" to keep the conversation going. Full Story: Training magazine (3/17)

The Landscape

Walmart, Target put millions toward front-line workers

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Walmart and Target have announced big-dollar packages aimed at rewarding and thanking employees who have been on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. Walmart created a $550 million package that includes cash bonuses for hourly workers and Target is putting $300 million toward wage hikes, bonuses, paid leave and a relief fund. Full Story: Supermarket News (free registration) (3/20)

Balancing Yourself

Yale's top course? One on happiness, and it's free Yale University's most popular course in its 300 years, The Science of Well Being, is available for free online through Coursera. It is available for a grade or audit and grew out of psychology professor Laurie Santos' Psychology and the Good Life course, which includes the study of neuroscience as well as how to change behavior to become happier. Full Story: CNN (3/23)

Bad night of sleep can lead to carb craving Lack of sleep can lead to your body not releasing its stress hormones, which can lead to a daytime craving of carbohydrates, says University of Chicago behavioral neuroscientist Erin Hanlon. "You're craving sweets and salty and starchy things. You want those chips, you want a cookie, you want some candy," Hanlon says. Full Story: CNN (3/23)

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The Water Cooler

Scientists come up with water-degradable plastic

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Typical plastic usually sticks around for years and years without degrading, but a team of researchers has now developed a starch and cellulose-based version of marine biodegradable plastic. The hope is that you (and your kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, etc.) might see fewer plastic bottles bobbing up and down in a body of water near you. Full Story: PhysOrg (3/23)

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