Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent 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 round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with back number one and that's you, Anna.
My fact this week is that Halford Business School recommends companies locate their headquarters in rainier places
because it makes employees more productive and that's why our output is so massive here.
This actually goes against what people think so they, as part of the same study or a similar one,
they asked people 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 fantasising about what else they could be doing.
Yeah,
they worked out 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,