This column will change your life: make the most of your guilt
'Attack your most guilt-inducing tasks,' says Oliver Burkeman, 'and you may find that you've attacked the most important ones too'
Does getting up to pee in the night affect your day job?
Open thread: Researchers say that waking up once or more at night to urinate can reduce your work rate by a quarter. Tell us if it affects you
Starting a family in 2013
Expenses can vary depending on your circumstances and how much you splash out on 'essential' equipment
This column will change your life: the truth about managers
Imagine a world without managers as a kind of paradise, a place where stuff actually gets done? It's time, Oliver Burkeman says, to wake up to reality…
What does your lunch hour look like?
Open thread: A health minister has said the trend for eating at one's desk is disgusting. Tell us what your lunchtime routine looks like
This column will change your life: consumer options
Have the pain of buying a mattress or choosing a flight? Happiness is also a comparison-based notion full of pitfalls, says Oliver Burkeman
Clear presenteeism danger
With attendance at work increasingly used as a redundancy selection criterion, presenteeism is an unfortunate – and unhealthy – sign of the times
Work stress can raise risk of heart attack by 23%, study finds
Research claims those most at risk are those with high demands on them but little control over how and when to do the work
This column will change your life: other people’s schedules
'At any hour of the day,' Oliver Burkeman says, 'I can tell you what four or five famous people are probably doing, should you wish to know'
Work after eight months of pregnancy is as harmful as smoking, study finds
Women who worked after they were eight months pregnant had babies who weighed 230g less on average