The bright side: Fortune has smiled on one investment banker
Tim Dowling: It's nice to hear a story about a rich person hitting the jackpot, because poor people often get really messed up by sudden wealth
City puts stress on meditation
Big businesses offer stress-busting classes to workers in Square Mile
Workforces of darkness
One in five of us is now employed outside normal office hours, but what does all that nocturnal activity do for our wellbeing? Andrew Shanahan investigates
The big slowdown
Open thread: Popular music decreases in speed, laxative sales go up: just what are the symptoms of recession?
Sleepless in SW1
Patrick Barkham The financial crisis is keeping politicians from their beds with rounds of all-night meetings. Is this wise?
Pound stretcher
Despite the annoying perception that personal trainers are superhuman, Andre Fergus enjoys the fact that he can make a difference to his client's lives
Welcome to the era of anxiety
Generalised anxiety disorder is the world's biggest mental health problem. But do we really have anything to worry about? Report by Harriet Green
PruHealth’s ‘free gyms’ promise runs out of puff
The health insurer has changed its terms already and policyholders could pay up to £600 a year more
The boss
Rebecca Jordan: Glastonbury inspires the type of creativity that can also enrich our working lives
Will this man make you happy?
The government's 'happiness tsar', Richard Layard, thinks he knows why we're all so miserable - we're overpaid, over-materialistic and lonely. But, he tells Stuart Jeffries, he has a plan to banish the blues in Britain, once and for all