After taking a short hiatus from our weekly most-newsworthy to kick-off National Health & Fitness Month, we're back with some juicy stories that are sure to get you thinking. So dust off your reading glasses and take a glance at our Top 9 stories about why your employees might be looking for a new job, and what you can do to change that.

Close your eyes.

Software engineers and computer programmers have it easy. Architects? Eh, not so much. 

If you thought LEGOs were just for kids, think again. Last week's epic Silicon Beach LEGO challenge featured 60 brilliant software engineers and web developers who WOW-ed us with their ability to create modern masterpieces from those tiny multicolored bricks. Ah, youth; abandoned, but not forgotten. 

Another week, another set of killer stories generating buzz around BetterWorks HQ. This week's stories revolve around the beliefs and best practices of the big guy up top -- the CEO.

Obesity and healthiness can be contagious. (Not a shocker.) The latest research shows that the people around us and in our social networks have a huge impact on our physical health and day-to-day habits. For example, "if someone quits smoking, his or her co-workers are 34% more likely to quit as well," says Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, social scientist at Harvard Medical School. It goes without saying, then, that the same factors apply in the social workplace when it comes to balancing your eating habits and losing that spare tire. The rad folks over at Massive Health hooked us up with the following infographic. Read it and weep into your snack bag of potato chips:

With this week's most popular headlines centering on the fall of one legendary figure (Dick Clark's passing) and rise of another (Tupac's life-like hologram at Coachella), those of us at BetterWorks HQ found ourselves thinking about how one becomes a star in the eyes of his or her peers, e.g., in the eyes of your beloved coworkers. 

It starts small: trouble concentrating, apathy, pesky skin irritations. But if ignored, then it hits you where it really hurts: decreased sex drive, overwhelming anger, bowel problems, chronic headaches, fatigue and heart-racing anxiety. Let’s face it, stress has always been — and likely will always be — a normal part of the work environment, to some extent. 

Friday afternoon BetterWorks' stellar account management team received a call from Venice-based customer Viddy, a mobile social video startup that provides simple ways for anyone to capture, beautify, and share amazing clips with the world. Turns out Viddy's entire team has been pulling some late nights at the office working up to 20 hours a day for several weeks, so the company wanted to surprise its hard-working crew with a little relaxation.

Over the past few weeks we’ve attended a slew of RSVP-only tech events on the Westside: Dealmaker’s strategy series panel on celebrity-driven business at Launchpad LA, the Silicon Beach 500 soiree at the Viceroy, and the Volunteer Brigades’ charity mixer at El Cholo, to name a few. Once just a small ring of local startups, Silicon Beach is now well on its way to becoming an industry hotbed. That said, at the risk of sounding like an echo chamber it was time for Silicon Beach to take a night off from boutique networking and engage the general public in some neighborly discussion about our growing tech scene’s impact on local residents and other businesses.