Working sick. Preschooler memory.

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• Malaysian Digest and CNNINdonesdia.com (in Indonesian) join the worldwide media coverage of a study of the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism co-authored  by Gary Johns, professor of management in the John Molson School of Business, and University of East Anglia academic Mariella Miraglia, listed as the lead author of the study. The paper looks at the factors that drive people to report for work when they are sick.
• Techno-Science is the latest to report on a study by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a postdoctoral fellow at the PERFORM Centre, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, showing that preschoolers who score lower on a working memory task are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale when they reach the age of 13.

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