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Social media as a predictor of job turnover?

"Employees who do not belong to any social networks leave their jobs more rapidly than those who belong to four or fewer. On the opposite end of the spectrum, employees who belong to five or more social networks also leave their jobs more rapidly than those in the middle group. Employees who belong to four or fewer social networks tend to stay put the longest." http://www.inc.com/francesca-fenzi/social-media-not-the-productivity-killer-you-thought.html
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What are you?

Categorising yourself just become a bit more complicated in Britain. Are you the “technical middle class,” a group that has a lot of money but few superior social connections or cultural activity; the “emergent service workers,” a young, urban group that has little money but a high amount of social and cultural capital; and the “new affluent workers,” who score high on social and cultural activity, but have only a middling amount of money? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/world/europe/multiplying-the-old-divisions-of-class-in-britain.html?ref=global-home
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Large companies and innovation?

Nick D'Aloisio, who made headlines for becoming a teenage multimillionaire when he sold Summly, his story summarisation company, to Yahoo, in March 2013 says large companies can't innovate as well as smaller ones. https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130403194412-211889-what-we-can-learn-about-innovation-from-a-teen-millionaire
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