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591. Signs of Progress, One Year at a Time

Freakonomics Radio

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Exploring Pull Quotes, Pagers in Healthcare, Legacy Technologies, and Job Satisfaction Trends

This chapter covers various topics including the importance of pull quotes in articles, the use of pagers in healthcare and their impending ban, the continued use of outdated technologies like pagers and fax machines, and the surprising increase in job satisfaction in the U.S. The discussion also touches on the evolution of performance reviews and the shifting trends in HR practices towards continuous assessments for enhanced employee satisfaction, contrasting job satisfaction trends between the U.S. and the U.K.

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