If you're an outdoor enthusiast, you may have heard of "Type One and Type Two fun." Likely first expressed in 1985 by University of Alaska geology professor Rainer Newberry (and popularized by ...

Bree Groff is a company culture, engagement, and leadership consultant, and serves as a senior adviser to the global consultancy SYPartners. She has guided executives at companies including Calvin ...

A new study reveals that when employees actively inject "play" into their work tasks, this playful mindset extends to their leisure time, leading to healthier eating and improved self-care. This ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how creativity and communications accelerate success. Sep 15, 2025, 06:13pm EDT Bree Groff knew that work would be ...

DEAR READER: With the upcoming holiday weekend top of mind, how can you have more fun at work and why is it important? Ah, hustle culture. It’s so common in our culture to live to work instead of work ...

Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In Direct ...

Every time our office holds a party for a holiday or a little event for someone’s birthday, one of my co-workers, “William,” uses the opportunity to try and network/brown nose/gain a promotion when ...

Written by Saima Ahmad, Ph.D., and Melissa Wheeler, Ph.D. Source: Yan Krukau/Pexels Gone are the days when “fun at work” meant a ping-pong table in the break room, ordering in pizza, or a mandatory ...

In a very serious field with high stakes, emotion overload and rampant rules, having fun might take a back burner. Let’s turn the heat up and break down four specific ways you can and should have fun ...

Believe it or not, not everyone absolutely dreads going to work. A Gallup global annual study on well-being, in partnership with the Wellbeing for Planet Earth Foundation, found that the majority of ...

One of the major challenges we all face in today’s workforce is how to collaborate with a variety of coworkers that grew up in different circumstances and possess different perspectives and ...