Employees Should Surf the Web at Work, Hear a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy’s Voice, and Being Cold Makes Us Crave Social Contact

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Learn about why bosses should let employees surf the web at work; how researchers made it possible for you to hear a mummy’s voice after 3,000 years; and why cold weather makes us crave social contact.

Employees Should Surf the Web at Work by Kelsey Donk

Andel, S. (2020, January 17). Why bosses should let employees surf the web at work. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/why-bosses-should-let-employees-surf-the-web-at-work-128444
Andel, S. A., Kessler, S. R., Pindek, S., Kleinman, G., & Spector, P. E. (2019). Is cyberloafing more complex than we originally thought? Cyberloafing as a coping response to workplace aggression exposure. Computers in Human Behavior, 101, 124–130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.013

Hear a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy’s Voice by Cameron Duke

Davis, N. (2020, January 23). Talk like an Egyptian: mummy’s voice heard 3,000 years after death. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/23/talk-like-an-egyptian-mummys-voice-heard-3000-years-after-death
Howard, D. M., Schofield, J., Fletcher, J., Baxter, K., Iball, G. R., & Buckley, S. A. (2020). Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice.’ Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56316-y
The re-created sound of Nesyamun. (2020). SoundCloud. https://soundcloud.com/user-408688451/the-re-created-sound-of-nesyamun

Being Cold Makes Us Crave Social Contact by Steffie Drucker

Cold Days Can Make Us Long For Social Contact — But Warming Up Our Bodies Eliminates This Desire. (2020, January 27). Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/01/27/cold-days-can-make-us-long-for-social-contact-but-warming-up-our-bodies-eliminates-this-desire/
Fay, A. J., & Maner, J. K. (2019). Interactive effects of tactile warmth and ambient temperature on the search for social affiliation. Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000407

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Goff.
0:07.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you learn about why bosses should let employees surf the web at work.
0:12.0	How researchers made it possible for you to hear a
0:14.2	mummy's voice after 3,000 years, and why cold weather makes us crave social
0:19.2	contact. Let's satisfy some curiosity. As it turns out, you shouldn't feel too guilty
0:24.4	for checking Facebook at work.
0:26.4	It's also okay to do a bit of online shopping
0:29.1	or even watch a hilarious YouTube video or two.
0:32.1	Okay, now if you're a a supervisor don't get mad at me
0:35.1	because new research suggests that managers should actually allow some time for
0:40.1	internet browsing. Surfing the web can help employees cope with stress at work.
0:46.1	In the United States, employees spend two hours a day doing stuff like scrolling through
0:50.5	Instagram, emailing friends, shopping, or googling random stuff.
0:55.4	And all that so-called cyberloafing does have a price.
0:58.8	It reportedly costs businesses up to $ billion dollars each year.
1:03.7	Which is why, of course, we're trained to think of this kind of behavior as bad.
1:08.5	And that's why lots of workplaces have computer use policies and internet monitoring to discourage employees from surfing on the clock.
1:16.0	I mean, anyone who's ever had a job knows that you're supposed to feel guilty for looking at your phone or scrolling through internet news at work, right?
1:24.0	But here's the twist.
1:25.0	According to new research, employees actually use cyberloafing as a way to cope with work stress,
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