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Don’t give hiring a moment’s notice
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Length:
5 minutes
Released:
Nov 17, 2010
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Podcast episode
Description
Wearing socks on the outside of your shoes makes you less likely to slip on icy paths.
Promoting people at random makes companies more efficient.
These two hypotheses were among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes – handed out by Improbable Research, an organisation set up to promote academic work that makes you laugh, then think. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Promoting people at random makes companies more efficient.
These two hypotheses were among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes – handed out by Improbable Research, an organisation set up to promote academic work that makes you laugh, then think. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Nov 17, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
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