Previous work experience not always a positive for a new job
Employees with previous work experience bring valuable knowledge and skills to their new jobs - but some of what they learned may actually hurt their work performance.
Employees with previous work experience bring valuable knowledge and skills to their new jobs - but some of what they learned may actually hurt their work performance.
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Feb 23, 2009
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Researchers from IE Business School and Indian Institute of Management Shillong have published a new study that examines why certain consumers are averse to products using a novel technology and what strategies marketers ...
Economics & Business
Apr 16, 2024
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Collin Pearsall has friends who have started having children. But he has chosen a different path—due, in large part, to climate change.
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2024
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"They knew we had separated. Why did they let him cancel the policy and refund him the money without giving me a call to let me know the house and contents were no longer insured, or not do it before speaking to me first?"
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2024
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Leap year. It's a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin and why?
Planetary Sciences
Feb 25, 2024
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Since the creation of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 1968, the U.S. government has paid over $51 billion to cover flood losses. Almost half of these payouts went to just 25 counties, among the fastest-growing ...
Economics & Business
Jan 24, 2024
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Extreme heat is already harming crop yields, but a new report quantifies just how much that warming is cutting into farmers' financial security. For every 1 degree Celsius of warming, yields of major crops like corn, soybeans ...
Agriculture
Jan 18, 2024
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In 2022, the insurance industry made a whopping USD 6 trillion globally—more than the entire economy of big countries like Japan and Germany. A recent study, published in The Journal of Finance and Data Science, looked ...
Economics & Business
Jan 3, 2024
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With a severe shortage of affordable housing in the United States, renters living along the East and Gulf coasts are uniquely vulnerable to hurricane disasters. Two new studies based on data from 2009 to 2018 show that renters ...
Social Sciences
Dec 13, 2023
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In 1783, the City of London was gripped by a court case which symbolized the brutal economics of slavery. Two years previously, the Liverpool slave ship Zong had set out from Accra, in present-day Ghana, with 442 men, women ...
Archaeology
Nov 29, 2023
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