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Do workplace performance appraisals and workplace goal-setting actually hurt morale?
I have the strong suspicion that workplace performance appraisals and the act of setting employee goals do little to improve the employee performance and often serve to hurt the employee morale, which ...
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Is working more than 40 hours a week pointless? [closed]
I've read in some news articles that after putting in 40 hours a week, productivity drops off dramatically, to the point where it is suggested that it's not worth doing at all. Is this true?
I've ...
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Is professional software development discriminatory?
It's quite a common experience that there are fewer women and African (-American) people in programming as warranted by the natural proportions. It is not so obvious whether this is due to ...
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What study showed that using headphones to drown out office noise is detrimental?
I was watching an interview with Spolsky and he mentioned some study that showed listening to music with headphones caused a drop in having "deep thoughts"
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