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Performance and wellbeing hacks that achieve "almost immediate" benefits are often ignored because they sound too familiar and easy, a wellbeing coach says.

Research from Microsoft Labs has found performance will increase, and stress will decrease, when employees take regular 10-minute breaks, wellbeing coach and educator Timo Topp tells HR Daily.

The problem is that because they have so much to do, many workers can't take a 10-minute break every two hours...