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Most employees acquire those skills over time—by learning from their nonwork relationships, watching how colleagues behave in the office, and by seeing what happens when they stumble in their own workplace interactions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The options for how to spend nonwork time are no longer confined to a limited lockdown menu of what can be accomplished at a distance of six feet or more.

From New York Times • May 4, 2024

Participants were also surveyed about daytime sleepiness, fatigue, the amount of time napping, and how many hours of sleep they get on a worknight and a nonwork night.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

“When you mix them together constantly, you’ll have switching costs from work to nonwork, and it will affect your flow and performance in either role,” Kossek said.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023

Previously Qatar had put the number at 40, 37 of which the Qataris described as nonwork incidents such as heart attacks.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022