What makes a 'good day'? Researchers at UBC find it involves no more than six hours of work

In determining what differentiates a good day from a typical one, University of British Columbia psychology research has found that we don’t like to work more than six hours a day. “We found that working for up to six hours had no impact on whether people rated their day as better than usual. When individuals worked for more than six hours though, the effects rapidly turned negative,” says Dunigan Folk, Ph.D. candidate at UBC, in a February 2025 research paper. Folk’s te