

After studying candidates and their outcomes at Google, we discovered that you could tell with 86% confidence whether or not someone should be hired after four interviews by averaging their interview scores. When it comes to finding the best people, there’s no such thing as too many interviews, right? Thankfully, for all parties involved, that’s actually not the case. VIEW ON GOOGLE+ +40 | 3 comments | 30 shares If you find it inspiring, there’s much more in the book at Hope you enjoy! #workrules To help you get started, I’ve put together this brief guide with what I believe to be the ten most important rules for developing a healthy, happy and productive workplace. By sharing experiences from companies that have been successful by putting their people first and the academic research that backs up this approach, my hope is to arm you with the tools you need to improve work everywhere. "Work Rules!" is my attempt to make things better.

It’s not right that the experience of work, even at some of the best employers, should be so demotivating and dehumanizing. We spend more time working than doing anything else in the world.

In fact, for most people, work was just a means to an end, or worse, a downright miserable experience. Yet in too many of them, the one constant seemed to be that people weren’t being treated the way they deserved to be. Since I first started working, I’ve amassed a random walk of jobs that can best be described as a guidance counselor’s nightmare.
