Science suggests that the most productive thing you can do for your working day is go to bed. And media master Arianna Huffington is shouting this message from the rooftops in her bestseller-cum-business venture, Thrive Global. It’s looking to leverage sleep cycles in the name of higher productivity.

No one likes detention, so in an effort to encourage students to be calmer and more mindful, a Baltimore elementary school is replacing rooms for confinement with meditation spaces. It's hoping that mindfulness and relaxation can prove more effective than punishment.

As the traditional nine-to-five becomes less relevant for present and future workers, Britons are expecting their employers to offer more to help make them happy, healthy and successful. With the costs of low productivity mounting, how can businesses boost wellbeing in the workplace?

Major corporations used to have their pick of the best minds as they left university. But there's now a talent shortage, and 53% of UK workers say that no amount of money could tempt them to a company with a poor employer brand. So how can businesses build their brand to attract the best applicants?