Microsoft goes on the attack in battle for tablet supremacy

Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablets are supposed to challenge the dominance of Apple’s iPad. And this time they’re coming out fighting, with two ads that challenge Apple head to head. Here’s the first one, which tries to convince you that Windows has the better numbers in terms of weight, size and being able to do more stuff.

Should we all be working a four day week?

Momentum is gathering behind the idea that Monday to Friday jobs may not be so hot for the company or for society as a whole. This isn’t a new idea. Philosophers from Confucius to Karl Marx and Bertrand Russell have contended that we work too much. Other radical philosophers have argued that we shouldn’t even bother working at all.

Open plan offices bad for focus

Most of us now work in an open plan office, which we’ve come to know as the typical workplace domain. But this may not be the ideal layout, according to one of the world’s most prominent design firms Gesler.