Manual labor employees face elevated arthritis risk long before symptoms appear, but early ergonomic intervention, task redesign and evidence-based prevention strategies can protect joint health, ...

Let's face it: the U.S. economy just doesn't recover like it used to. The jobs don't come back as fast, and the effect seems to linger longer. What gives? A new paper, by Duke's Nir Jaimovich and the ...

Repetitive manual labor has long been one of the toughest challenges in manufacturing. High employee turnover, constant retraining, and the difficulty of maintaining consistent quality create ...

When most young job seekers think about warehousing jobs, they picture traditional facilities where products are stored, picked and packed by hand. In these manual warehouses, employees usually work ...

This setup might have served industrial systems, where goods were created by a line of repetitive, manual labor. But it fails our knowledge economy, where the valued prize is less a widget and more an ...