This column will change your life: want to get ahead? Move to Perth

'When we're imagining people and things as physically farther away,' Oliver Burkeman says, 'we see the salient features instead of distracting details, the forest instead of the trees'

How the tech industry’s youth cult is driving older workers to plastic surgery

You don't have to be young to work in Silicon Valley – but it certainly helps. Which is why the over-30s are now taking extreme measures, says Jon Henley

This column will change your life: the perils of feedback

'We want to feel we're learning and improving, but we also want appreciating for who we are,' says Oliver Burkeman

What is the cost to boys of our traditional view of masculinity?

Lola Okolosie: Men are hemmed in by narratives telling them that stoicism is manly. This isn't what I want for my son

Aid workers and post-traumatic stress disorder

Reports say PTSD affects up to 30% of humanitarian workers. Which organisations offer help and what can you do to preserve your mental health?

How I stay calm, by people with very stressful jobs

Top tips from an A&E consultant, football manager, headteacher and more

Sickness leave tumbles by more than 25% since 1993

ONS figures show the average person took 4.4 days off in 2013, compared with 7.2 days two decades ago

Commuting makes you ‘unhappy and anxious’, says ONS

Commuters have lower life satisfaction and a lower sense that their daily activities are worthwhile, according to research based on around 60,000 people

My own health is suffering as I cover for a job-share colleague with MS

Work advice I am increasingly picking up the slack as other people dump work on me that should be shared between us. What can I do?

Is working night shifts bad for you?

A new study claims that working nights can disrupt gene activity after only three days – and the health dangers are thought to include an increased risk of breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart attacks. Does it worry nocturnal workers? And are there any advantages?

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