The evidence appears to be mounting that sitting all day is terrible for your health, but what if you’re not thrilled with the idea of standing all day either? Not to mention that shelling out for a ...

Retail and food workers have long complained about the difficulty of being able to take a proper break from work. Unless they bring their food from food, many end up grabbing a meal or snack from a ...

Sitting all day is terrible for your long-term health, so break timer app Moova helps you sneak in exercise breaks. It offers more than 200 targeted exercises for battling stiffness, aches, RSI, bad ...

The modern workplace has created an epidemic of mental exhaustion that leaves millions of Americans feeling drained, unfocused and overwhelmed by the end of each day. Traditional coffee breaks and ...

A number of recent scientific studies have suggested that spending too much time sitting down—for example, while working at your computer—is bad for you. While some of my colleagues have resorted to ...

Whether you need a timer to keep you on task or to remind you to occasionally get off task and emerge from your office, FocusBoosterLive can help ensure the hours don't slip away. We're big fans of ...

Publicspace.net has released MacBreakZ version 4.0 beta 1, a public beta version of their “break timer” for Mac OS X. It’s available for download now — MacBreakZ costs $9.95. MacBreakZ encourages ...

The human brain wasn’t built to go at full steam for hours on end. Studies have shown that performance suffers when you spend prolonged periods focusing on the same task. Brief mental breaks can help ...

Despite our gut sense and mounting empirical evidence that taking a break will help us think and work more productively, many driven professionals grind away for hours straight during their workday.

Student and hacker [prusteen] recently fell in love with the Pomodoro method of time management. That’s where you concentrate on your task for 25 minutes, then take a five-minute break, and repeat ...