Now that offices are opening back up, let’s talk about the commute. Should we think of it as a transition between two domains or as a domain in its own right? How does work spillover into the commute? How are employees going to feel about returning to their old commutes after COVID restrictions are lifted?
In this episode from last April, I talked to Katrina Burch, Assistant Professor of IO Psych at Western Kentucky University all about commuting research.
What was I just saying about offices opening up again?
In more recent Katrina Burch news, Katrina Burch was recently quoted in this Bloomberg article about how the delta variant has employers thinking twice about their return-to-work plans.
It feels like it’s getting a little crazy again.
You said it, Dr. Burch.
Underrated: Compliments
Compliments increase the well-being of both expressers and recipients, yet people report in a series of surveys giving fewer compliments than they should give, or would like to give. Nine experiments suggest that a reluctance to express genuine compliments partly stems from underestimating the positive impact that compliments will have on recipients.
The preprint awaits you here—you attractive, intelligent, charming sophisticated reader, you.
One simple trick for being more productive? Stop watching the news. Daily news consumption is linked with greater uncertainty—which predicts less creativity and goal progress.
My favorite finding in this paper is about an unusual moderator:
Results from their analyses indicated that the relationship between daily news consumption and uncertainty was weaker for those with higher death anxiety. The researchers proposed that those with higher death anxiety were less impacted by the novelty of the news of the pandemic.
The literary estate of John Paul Sartre is preparing an experimental philosophical vaccine to inoculate the vulnerable with low-level existential dread to protect them from the larger shocks of the daily news.
The only primer on counterproductive work behavior you’ll ever need. I hope Paul Spector lives to be 200 so he can write an essay like this for every IO construct.