Working conditions and your own health

This branch treats the conditions a writer's working day runs under as things the output depends on, and a reader chooses here between two of them: the writer's own health, from stress, resilience, sleep, sitting and attention to time off, burnout and writing itself as a health practice; and the working arrangements, from the shape of the working day and week to working from home as an employee or under lockdown, isolation, caring alongside the work, enjoyment, and what the 2020 pandemic did to the work. It leaves the premises and equipment of a freelance home office to setting up a freelance practice, the workload a client relationship generates to keeping the workload sustainable, the writer's carbon footprint to sustainability in a writer's own practice, and the biology of the lifestyle components to lifestyle medicine.

• Your health — your health as a working condition: stress and resilience, time off and burnout, sleep, sitting, attention and the digital habit, writing as a health practice, and the emotional cost of animal research
• Working arrangements — the working day and the working week, working from home as an employee, isolation, caring alongside the work, enjoyment, and what the 2020 pandemic and its lockdowns did to the work