Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and

Anna Chazinski and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our 4th favorite

facts from the last 7 days and in no particular order here we go.

Starting with back number 1, and that's you, Anna.

My fact this week is that Harvard Business School recommends companies locate their headquarters

in rainier places because it makes employees more productive.

And that's why I are out putting so massive here.

This actually goes against what people think.

So as part of the same study or a similar one, they asked people what they thought, what effect

they thought bad weather would have on productivity.

80% of people said they thought it would decrease it.

Turned out they did this big study in a Tokyo bank and they found that employees processed

loan applications much faster.

So that's something that requires a lot of focus and concentration much faster and more

quickly on rainy days than sunny ones.

And it was because when they investigated it, that nice weather causes more cognitive

distractions.

I.e. people sit in their offices fantasizing about what else they could be doing.

Yeah, the work tell us the effect is so great that if it's a sunny day versus when it's

rainy, that $937,000 is what they would have made if it was continuously rainy basically.

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