After making some fairly significant changes to our annual Product Resource Guide over the years, we’ve decided to stand pat, only adding a dab of new content and streamlining some of our product categories in this 2014-15 edition. Based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback we received about last year’s guide, this is in no way a bad thing.

UC San Francisco study suggests healthy diet, sleep and exercise can mitigate negative impacts of stress.

New study investigates ergonomic effects of obesity-related functional performance impairment.

Disappointment is inevitable for leaders. At times your people will disappoint you, and there will also be instances where you disappoint others. So the fact that disappointment occurs isn’t the challenge. The real issue to address is how you respond to the disappointment.

Modern office workers are expected to multitask regularly, often juggling multiple projects and priorities over the course of a day. Studies have shown that the typical employee in an office environment is interrupted up to six times per hour, but how does that impact the finished product? New research published in Human Factors evaluates how ongoing interruptions can negatively affect the quality of work. 

"It's possible that employers could be held accountable in the future."

The phenomenon of "boomerang employees" is not unique to professional athletes, says two studies co-written by T. Brad Harris, a professor of labor and employment relations at Illinois.

It’s all premised on having the right players, says ‘coolest young entrepreneur.’

Latest research from USC Center for Effective Organizations explains findings.

While it might be the season for beach trips and family vacations, for most of us those getaways only
fill a few weeks at best. After that, it’s back to the workplace or, in your case, the lab.

Have you ever complained about having to parent another adult? Maybe you are trying too hard to fix them.

As we’ve talked about many times in this column, technology has transformed the life sciences in more radical ways than in most industries. Many of us went from bench work to office work. Along the way, our work became more streamlined and sometimes more complex, no doubt because of all kinds of
electronic communication happening via computers, smartphones, and other personal devices.