Rojgar Job News

Shorter is better. Why? The slang TL;DR comes to mind. But it turns out there’s an educational component too — at least according to the results of a new study that examined workplace contracts. In the study, published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology and recapped by Insights by Stanford Business School, “the researchers found that workers whose contracts contained more general language spent more time on their tasks, generated more original ideas, and were more likely to cooperate with others. They were also more likely to return for future work with the same employer, underscoring the durable and long-lasting nature of the effect.” In other words, contracts that contained pages upon pages of specific do’s and don’t for workers, ended up harming the employment relationship. Instead, researchers found that “the more general contracts increased people’s sense of autonomy over their work.” This isn...