The Daily Stat: If You Have a Lot of Work to Do, Hope for Rain

 

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June 02, 2014 If You Have a Lot of Work to Do, Hope for Rain Bad weather is better than good weather at sustaining people's attention and maintaining productivity, according to a study by Jooa Julia Lee of Harvard University, Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School, and Bradley R. Staats of the University of North Carolina. In a study of Japanese bank workers whose windows gave them a view of the weather, a 1-inch increase in daily rainfall was related to a 1.3% decrease in worker completion time for data-entry tasks. When the weather is bad, workers are less distracted by thoughts of outdoor activities. SOURCE: Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity

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