Initiating a dialogue about roles and responsibilities in first days of a mentor-mentee pairing can lay the groundwork for a successful collaboration, writes Amie Weinberg, a mentoring program coordinator in Virginia. Agreements can cover specifics about how interactions will work, define a reciprocal relationship and stress trust and confidentiality, Weinberg explains.

Hard work can be valuable and rewarding, provided it's meaningful, purposeful, exciting and creates a mindspace where you're "hyper-generative, hyper-cognitive, hyper-creative," says podcaster and author Jonathan Fields. "We're getting something back from the way that we're investing effort in the world that is making us wake up in the morning and feel excited to do it, to feel like it matters," he says.

Employee engagement relies on having common gathering places, whether that's physical office spaces or shared communication channels in a hybrid or remote setting, writes Katheryn Brekken of i4cp. "If leaders aren't present on your company's communication platform, if they don't share relevant information or empower employees to do so, your people won't either, and this represents immeasurable lost opportunities," Brekken writes.

Starting a new job while working remotely can be anxiety-inducing, so here are several tips for making a good impression. They include setting up your home office before the first day and asking for a contact who can answer small questions.

A study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that individuals who get less than seven hours of sleep tended to snack more often -- usually with high-calorie snacks with little nutritional value -- compared with those who sleep more than seven hours per day. Lead researcher Christopher Taylor, PhD, RDN, explains that "not only are we not sleeping when we stay up late, but we're doing all these obesity-related behaviors: lack of physical activity, increased screen time, food choices that we're consuming as snacks and not as meals."

September 24, 1991, was quite an iconic day in music history as Nirvana, A Tribe Called Quest, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Van Morrison and the Pixies all released seminal albums on the same day. This fun piece turns to data to come up with a formula to see if that day was indeed the Greatest Release Date in history. Along the way, the article also looks at some other dates in history that saw a plethora of memorable album releases.