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With the aim of promoting physical well-being and fitness right in your living room, tech giant Google is planning to closely integrate its Android TV platform with fitness trackers and third-party audio.The company's fitness integration will eventually enable interactive video workouts, complete with the ability to directly watch one's heart rate, burned calories, and other real-time data from a Fitbit or Wear OS device on the TV screen.The fitness tracker will allow developers to build interactive workout services for…

Credit: Shutterstock Telstra and Westpac are the latest companies to encourage staff to work from home, just a few months after some of them returned to the office. Working from home…

A recent study has shown that there’s “little to no evidence” that gaming has an effect on a person’s wellbeing.  The study, which was conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute and reported on by BBC News, examined 39,000 game players, with wellbeing measured “by asking about life satisfaction and levels of emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger and frustration.” It was also noted that the average person would have to play for “10 hours more than usual per day to notice any difference” in their wellbeing. Apex…

Credit: Shutterstock/thanun vongsuravanich A recent survey of New Zealand workplaces revealed more than a third have no workplace well-being plan in place. Yet it is necessary, now more than ever, for organizations to understand what a healthy work environment looks like and to provide it for their employees. …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Deakin University research has revealed managers' leadership styles could be to blame for their employees' health issues. The paper, published in Sport…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new compendium of academic analysis, researchers argue that despite decades of investment in "positive education"—such as programs to teach children happiness and mindfulness—schools still lack a proper framework for cultivating pupil well-being. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Wharton marketing professor Wendy De La Rosa was enjoying dinner with family when her cousin started raving about a new arrangement with his employer that allows him to access his wages each day through an app, rather than waiting for payday. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Every student in every school in Australia has experienced unprecedented disruptions to their schooling over the past three years. On top of the disruptions and stress of COVID-19 lockdowns, isolation from their schools, their friends and (for many) their extended families, tens of thousands of Australian families have also seen their communities ravaged by fires and floods.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The concern that media access may be harmful to children and adolescents has been a topic of public debate since long before the existence of the smartphone. …

The study found that in comparison to the control group, students who had completed the program reported less stress, sadness, and anger.Evaluating a new method of therapy for autistic individualsThe use of Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder was evaluated in a Ph.D. thesis at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings suggest that the therapy may be used in both a school setting and psychiatric outpatient care and that it can influence factors like perceived stress and much…