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…research has shown that nearly 40 percent of the American workers they surveyed, from the top to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, report feeling overworked.

…research found… people with more education [feel] more than time stress than those with less education.

…research finds that the amount of housework a woman does depends to a great degree on her own earnings. The more a woman makes, the less housework she does.

…researchers… insist housework and child care [are] not the same as leisure… women’s leisure is different from men’s leisure in both quantity and quality.

…researchers contend, busyness became not just a way of life, but glamorous. Now, they say, it is a sign of high social status.

Researchers have found that the way people feel about the stress in their lives is a far more powerful predictor of their general health… than any other measure.

…new research is finding that better work gets done when workers have more control over and predictability about their time and workflow, and when managers focus on the mission…

…we can listen to the research, drag our business and personal practices into the twenty-first century, and craft a new operating system to help ourselves, our companies, and our world work a little better.

Research is indispensable, but the best single-easy-to-use, fool-proof tool we have at our disposal to blank slate is the simplest one imaginable: take great notes.

Research now backs up [the] belief that whom you associate with is crucial to who you become.