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439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears

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The Effect of Noise on Productivity in Textiles

Workers were paid for each pocket they sewed, as long as it was deemed acceptable by an impartial judge. If we double how loud the room feels, workers are about five per cent less productive on this task. And there is another great paper that looks at the effects of an intensive, month's long management intervention in a textile factory in india. and what they find is that that increases output by nine%....

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