Fake it till you make it' might be common advice to climb the corporate ladder, but new research shows that this attitude could also adversely affect job satisfaction and mental health.

Today, many mothers are still making very difficult decisions daily while putting their own happiness on hold to remain in ...

"Bride wants to use bridesmaid honors as bait to cement more advantageous or recent friendships. Often it seems to come down ...

Emotional labor refers to the effort and control it takes to display the organizationally appropriate sentiment—whether that’s cheerfulness, compassion, discipline, or neutrality—when ...

One such factor that is very interesting to us was emotional labor." The term emotional labor is managing emotions to fulfill the expectations of a job or social role, or pretending to feel ...

This is what sociologist Arlie Hochschild famously coined as emotional labour—“when seeming to ‘love the job’ becomes part of the job," as she wrote in her 1983 book The Managed Heart.

Yasmin represents the millions of women excluded from the labour force, who say that family and household work is a ...

emotional labor, and self-imposed pressure you carry every day. Decision Fatigue: Why Too Many Choices Are Making You Tired Every day, you make thousands of micro-decisions. Some are small (Should ...

Even our pets seem to rely on me for comfort. The constant demand for emotional labor has left me with decision fatigue, irritability, headaches and frequent crying spells. I’m searching for effective ...