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Are Chore Wars at Home Holding You Back at Work?

Harvard Business

. “I would feel like I was being selfish by spending that time on my career — for example, by staying late at the office to finish an important project — rather than doing something I knew needed to be done around the house,” she told me. Jane isn’t alone — far from it.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups. The third was leadership visits, which meant extra hours were spent ensuring the store looked perfect. Requiring employee schedules to be posted two weeks in advance.

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