Five questions to ask yourself.

During stressful periods, people look for support from their partners more than ever, but personal space is important too. A Harvard expert on healthy relationships offers advice for the COVID-19 lockdown and beyond.

While we’re all experiencing greater job and family stress in this new normal, recent research has found there are steps that employees can take to protect their well-being.

Are you leaving your organization during a critical time? In this bonus episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Shirli Kopelman, a negotiations professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the author of Negotiating Genuinely: Being Yourself in Business. They talk through what to do when you’re planning to give notice during the coronavirus pandemic and can’t train your replacement.

How will this pandemic change our career paths — and what new opportunities will it open up? The hosts talk with Bozoma Saint John, CMO at Endeavor, about how we can write new scripts to succeed during and after this crisis.

To help her time management coaching clients maintain and regain energy, the author has been working on ways that they can reduce or eliminate technology throughout their day. Here are a few strategies that have been most effective.

It can blur the line between work and life.

Even on a tight schedule, you can connect through shared experiences.

The Anxious Achiever Host Morra Aarons Mele speaks with Elise Loehnen, Chief Content Officer at Goop, about her own experiences with anxiety at work, how she manages employees and their mental health, and what self-care really means.

How can we best take care of ourselves while we get through this pandemic? And how can we set ourselves up to thrive afterward? The hosts talk about the importance of sleep, meditation, and more with Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global.

People who regularly attend religious services tend to have a lower risk of alcohol poisoning, drug overdose, and suicide, a Chan School study finds.

Harvard experts discuss ways to ease the rising sense of isolation and feel more connected.

The shift to remote work is highlighting domestic inequity in many households.

Five strategies to get your head in the game.

Is the Covid-19 pandemic messing up your career plans? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Scott Galloway, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business and the author of The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning. They talk through what to do when you’ve been laid off with a promise that you’ll be hired back eventually, your goal of moving into management has stalled, or your employer’s inflexible work-from-home policy is forcing you to look for other jobs in a difficult market.

As businesses and schools are shuttered, economic uncertainty encroaches, and a pandemic rages worldwide, there is plenty of anxiety to go around. We’re watching our healthcare system be pushed to its limits, but the grief and trauma we’re seeing presages a second wave of need: Before long, our mental healthcare system is going to be stretched to the breaking point as well. As physical distancing continues, we need to make sure that we help alleviate the isolation, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and other mental health impacts that will result, driving a potentially system-overwhelming curve of their own. And now is the time to head off this second crisis.

Unexpected events or shocks disrupt our habitual routines, jolt us out of our comfort zones, and lead us to ask big questions about what matters and what is worth doing. It’s no wonder, then, that during the current pandemic, many people are rethinking their careers. But is this really the right time?

As working parents with a seemingly endless array of responsibilities, it can be hard to make space for yourself. The tendency to focus all your energy on work or family and put your own needs on hold is the norm. And this has only become more difficult with the current crisis. But the benefits of taking care of ourselves, whether that’s physically, emotionally, spiritually, or mentally, are undeniable.

Vivek Murthy, former U.S. Surgeon General, says that even before the Covid-19 pandemic, we were facing another health crisis: loneliness. Studies show that, around the world, more people have been feeling a greater sense of social isolation, which has many negative affects, including increased blood pressure, reduced immune response, and decreased engagement and productivity at work. But organizations can be a place where people find a greater sense of belonging. Murthy wants us to take loneliness more seriously and focus on fostering the types of authentic connections — face-to-face and virtual — that we need to combat it.

The pandemic is taking a toll on mental health as people shelter from coronavirus, and each other, says a Chan School professor of psychiatric epidemiology.

My decades of research show that stigma harms the mental and physical health of people with disease. Stigma can take the forms of social rejection, gossip, physical violence, and denial of services.

While it’s commendable to want to excel to the highest extent possible (and show your boss and coworkers that you can), obsessing over mistakes can do more harm than good.

The lines between work and non-work are blurring in new and unusual ways, and many employees who are working remotely for the first time are likely to struggle to preserve healthy boundaries between their professional and personal lives.

Rituals, it turns out, are a powerful human mechanism for managing extreme emotions and stress, and we should be leaning on them now. A Q&A with HBS professor Michael Norton.

Social distancing and being forced to work remotely due to the coronavirus has us feeling a range of emotions every day, from happy or sad, to anxious, nervous, disconnected, and sometimes even grief. Professor Arthur Brooks shares tips to help you remain positive during such uncertain times.

With millions of people wondering what to do in the face of an actual or potential job loss, I polled several human resources experts and executive coaches about the questions they recommend asking should they receive a layoff notification during the global pandemic.

For these working daughters and sons, setting boundaries, employing technology and routines, asking for flexibility (and some forgiveness), and managing well-being will be critical.

With no clear division of labor between paid work and housework, dual-career couples are facing a host of new and unfamiliar challenges. How can both partners work productively under the same roof? Who gets to use the home office, and when?

Although part of our capacity to deal with the unknown is innate, a larger portion is learned. Those who develop this “uncertainty capability” are more creative, more successful, and better able to turn uncertainty into possibility.

When it comes to stress, there is good news: We’re not helpless. Understanding how negative emotional contagion works increases your awareness of it — and is a form of prevention in its own right.

If we can name it, perhaps we can manage it. We turned to the world’s foremost expert on grief, David Kessler, for ideas on how to do that.

Readjusting to the new normal may be challenging, but maintaining routines, creating modified schedules, and swapping in new ways to do old things can help relieve stress and increase productivity.

The news about the spread of COVID-19 is changing fast — and people are trying to make decisions about everything from whether to cancel vacations to how to best protect themselves and their communities. There are several psychological reasons why you may find decision-making difficult right now.

Coronavirus has forced many organizations to suddenly take the plunge into remote work with many unanswered questions. Professor Tsedal Neeley and CMCO Brian Kenny use Zoom to discuss everything from creating a routine and connecting with colleagues to using virtual presentations and flex work time to make the most out of working from home.