Study: Giving employees chocolate increases productivity

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Thursday, March 27, 2014
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Want your employees to work harder? The solution can be found in two simple but sweet acts -- give them candy and make them laugh.

Economists in England found giving people chocolate and showing them videos of stand-up comedy raised their productivity by up to 12 percent.

The group given no food or chocolate and shown a boring placebo video did not perform as well.