Articles by Matt Zajechowski

America’s Relationship with Work Email

We surveyed one thousand people who consider email significant to their work, to find out which parts of the country have the busiest professionals. Americans differ when it comes to the rate at which they check work email. Thirty percent have their email open constantly, 54 percent check their email multiple times per day, and […]

Teen Dreams VS Workforce Realities

Astronaut. Teacher. Ballerina. Doctor. Singer. Few people say “I want to grow up and work in an office,” yet 15 percent of Americans have office/administrative jobs (the largest of 22 segments of the U.S. labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics). The question is–how much disparity exists between the jobs we dream of […]

New Data on Impact of Office Design and Décor

We’ve known about the importance of work environments for some time now. In a 2003 survey by Management Today, 97 percent of respondents said they regard their workplace as a symbol of whether or not they are valued by their employer. While this shouldn’t come as a surprise, there’s a disheartening new layer to the […]

America’s Relationship With Work Email

We surveyed one thousand people who consider email significant to their work, to find out which parts of the country have the busiest professionals. Americans differ when it comes to the rate at which they check work email. Thirty percent have their email open constantly, 54 percent check their email multiple times per day, and […]

What Happened to the Lunch Hour?

We often refer to the midday work break as the “lunch hour,” but our recent survey of 500 American workers shows not many people are taking advantage of that full hour anymore. So what has the workday lunch in America become? Our data uncovered some surprising trends, habits, and economics. Industries with the longest lunch […]

How Are Multitasking Millennials Impacting Today’s Workplace?

Many business leaders still think of multitasking as a great thing, clinging to visions of employees who get more done than ever before. And, they think, there’s no generation better equipped to juggle multiple tasks than people in the 18 to 34-year-old age group, commonly known as Millennials. And it’s true, Millennials are known for […]

Workplace Stress—What’s Your Level?

Can a 100-year-old experiment in stress teach us about today’s workplace productivity? In 1908, psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson described an experiment in which they were able to motivate rats through a maze using mild electrical shocks. They found that if the shocks were too strong, the rats would lose their motivation to […]