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Small changes in family routines can increase creativity and adaptability at work.

Redesigning family routines at home can fuel creativity and innovation in your workplace.

Flow at home builds confidence, which can spill over into resilience and problem-solving on the job.

We often treat home and work like rival siblings. One is supposed to be the refuge from the other. Shut the laptop, close the mental tabs, and leave the office behind. The psychological reality is different. Your brain does not commute. It carries patterns across settings, which means the way you handle family life can prime your mind for what you do at work the next day.

A new study led by Yasin Rofcanin, a professor of organisational psychology and HRM at the University of Bath, challenges the idea that

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