Why stressed workers need four-day weeks – not wellness trends

Spiralling work pressures make us sick. A debate about shorter hours is the answer, not gong baths or ‘mindful minutes’

‘It’s a safety blanket’: why more and more teenagers are relying on life coaches

We think of life coaching as something for middle-aged executives, yet 17- and 18-year-olds are increasingly signing up. Is it for career advice – or because they help assuage loneliness?

I learned I could do my job and not feel ashamed of having a baby

As a freelancer, I struggled to separate my work from my duties as a parent – until I realised that the two could exist side by side

Three to tango: the pregnant dancer duetting with her husband

A screen role as an expectant dancer prepared Bobbi Jene Smith for the real thing. She talks about doing the bump … with a bump

UK among least family-friendly countries in OECD, survey finds

League table compiled based on parental leave and childcare levels puts UK in bottom third

I started mentoring young people – and gave my own life a purpose

I quit a job in marketing to edit a youth magazine. I loved helping to launch careers (and to send a lamb chop into space)

All change: how to leave the city and find a new career

As growing numbers abandon London and other expensive cities for a better quality of life, some are using the big move to start their own business

Danielle Steel works 20 hours a day, but is that to be envied?

Working all the time, she’s written 179 books. But compulsive productivity has a flip side

Most of us feel sleepy in the afternoon. Why can’t work fit round that?

Now a third of Britons are sleep-deprived, work should be more flexible, says André Spicer, professor of organisational behaviour at the Cass Business School

Disrupted sleep patterns can lead to ‘deviant behaviour’, research suggests

Science journalist Linda Geddes calls for more flexi-working to fit in with early risers and night owls