Research can sometimes be counterintuitive. That is, the findings go against what we would have expected - they challnege so-called common sense. Helping us to realise that some of the things we take for granted have no basis in truth  is therefore an important role that research plays for society. However, sometimes the value of research comes from confirming what has been taken for granted for a long time - reaffirming that it does have a basis in fact. An example of the latter was recently reported in the Observer in an article that described the research opf Andrew Oswald of Warwick University. His recent study has shown a strong link between happiness and productivity, with negative emotions producing lower levels of productivity. So, perhaps the idea that an organisation's most important resource is its human resource - its people - was the correct assumption all along. Perhaps we really do have to take workplace well-being seriously.