The weeks leading up to the holiday break at work are a special kind of torture. Deadlines pile up, everyone’s either scrambling to finish projects or pretending to be productive, and let’s be ...

Research shows workplace humor is a double-edged sword—great jokes can boost status, but failed attempts often backfire. Here’s how to “think funny” without risking your career.

Ah, work—the place where you spend 40 hours a week trying to look busy, but really just wondering why the coffee tastes like ...

Some days, the last thing you want to do is go to work—but since it doesn't look like those bills will start paying themselves anytime soon, you put on your best #adulting face and head out for your ...

With the recent rise of virtual work, many of us no longer have the opportunity to commiserate with colleagues around the water cooler to bemoan the latest workplace annoyance. But, luckily that’s ...

Nothing inspires a laugh or two more than a well-timed wisecrack, funny one-liner or corny dad joke. Fortunately, thanks to a variety of comedians, movies, sitcoms and other outlets, there's no ...

On the stage at The Drum Live this week, a panel of experts on marketing humor broke down the (serious!) commercial case for funny work. What are the essentials and secrets of funny ads? / Credit: The ...

The researchers, from the Universities of Colorado, Arizona, and Melbourne, write in Phys.org advising that their research, as well as a “growing body of work by other scholars,” shows that it’s ...