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It's an old truism among journalists..." ". MeatRobot.org.uk. 4 December 2007 . Retrieved 12 May 2019. This Mietpreisbremse was supposed to be qualitatively different. Under this system, state governments can cap the initial rents, set at the outset of a new tenancy, in selected property hotspots. More precisely, they can limit them to 110% of a reference value, which is based on average local rents for similar properties. No. If a candidate was good enough that you wanted to offer them a job, then offer them everything. What message do you think it sends if you make them prove that your hiring decision was right before you offer them what everyone else gets? Not unless it is a gross misconduct offence, or as above, you have explored other ways of dealing with the situation. Discipline should be the last resort, not the first step. Not unless you are going to genuinely commit to doing something with the content, and finding other ways of listening to your people too – and definitely more regularly than once a year.

Berner, R. Thomas (2007). Fundamentals of Journalism: Reporting, Writing and Editing. Marquette Books. ISBN 9780922993765. Ethically and legally, it is very difficult for a business to justify paying staff who do the same job in different locations (home or office) at a different rate, and since it’s still the case that a majority of home-based staff are women an employer who thinks of doing this is leaving themselves open to Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination claims. Information is not knowledge. Take away the market that produces economic data, and governments would be flying blind. What to produce? How much should be produced? What production processes should be used? Who should be employed in production? Eliminate the freedom of individuals to choose, and central planners would have no way to answer these questions despite possessing mountains of past information on their hard drives. Such knowledge simply can’t be generated otherwise than by the market process. All the data in the world can’t change that. Not quite. The reason why the Mietpreisbremse has not had any discernible negative effects is simply that it has not had any discernible effects at all. Rents in controlled areas have shown the same trend as rents in otherwise similar, but uncontrolled areas, so it has not been much of a Bremse (=brake) at all. Why not?

This was the result of a last-minute intervention by then World journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, who, having received a tip from gambling friends that Charles Evans Hughes might not in fact win, persuaded Charles M. Lincoln, the managing editor of the paper, to reset the headline in between editions, inserting a question mark. [29] [30] Confusingly, below the question headline the World still had a picture of Hughes captioned "The President-Elect" but the question headline did indeed turn out to have the answer "no", as President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected, which the World finally announced in a headline two days later. [26] [28]

A classic newspaper QTWTAIN (Question to which the answer is No), following reports in today’s newspapers in which an unnamed government minister suggested that civil servants who work from home should be paid less than those who come to the office. Given the speed with which policy U-turns take place, the Business Secretary has now said a few hours later that this will not happen. Ellis, Edward Robb (1975). Echoes of distant thunder: life in the United States, 1914–1918. Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan. Peon, Boris (4 August 1988). "Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?". Archived from the original on 10 April 2016 . Retrieved 12 May 2019. So were all those warnings about the devastating effects of rent controls just neoliberal propaganda? Have we finally found out how to make rent controls works? The legal process for reducing someone’s pay is also a difficult and time-consuming one for an employer. Contractual changes need to be consulted on and if an employee doesn’t agree then businesses are left in the legally-fraught ‘ fire and rehire’ scenario. Even if you get away with this legally, cutting people’s pay is far more likely to demotivate them and affect their productivity.It is worth reading up on the Swedish system. Their rent control system does not cap rents or freeze them but controls them by controlling the increases in rents through collective bargaining between landlords and tenants unions. Rises are almost always above CPI/Inflation. The resulting increase is then ‘distributed’ across the different properties according to the ‘use value’ system. Betteridge's name became associated with the concept after he discussed it in a February 2009 article, which examined a previous TechCrunch article that carried the headline "Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data to the RIAA?" ( Schonfeld 2009): Big Data represents an important scientific advance, but it is fundamentally inadequate to achieve these more ambitious goals. The problem is not merely a time-lag of data collection or the inability to predict future innovations and sudden changes in preferences (though these limitations are also important). O'Keefe, Kevin (2013). "The press and the politics of neutrality". A Thousand Deadlines: The New York City Press and American Neutrality, 1914–17. Springer. ISBN 9789401576086.

So here’s the crux: if you want to make rent controls more fine-grained and flexible, you inevitably increase their complexity, and create uncertainty. Under those conditions, rent controls cannot be automatically enforced: you need proactive tenants, who insist on their enforcement. In areas where demand exceeds supply, tenants are not in a position to behave in that way. They might, in markets which are more skewed in the tenant’s favour, but of course, in such markets, you don’t need rent controls in the first place. Bloch, Arthur (1991). The Complete Murphy's Law: A Definitive Collection (reviseded.). Los Angeles, California: Price Stern Sloan. ISBN 9780843129687. However, as I’ve seen similar arguments advanced in other business magazines, notably in the US, it’s worth thinking through the logic of this argument from a business, ethical and legal perspective.So I got to thinking. What are the HR versions of QTWTAIN? Here are mine…… but I’d love to hear yours too. Betteridge, Ian (23 February 2009). "TechCrunch: Irresponsible journalism". Technovia.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 February 2009 . Retrieved 12 May 2019.

To make sense of enormous databases, statisticians have developed innovative analytical tools, including machine learning, A/B testing, and natural-language processing. Storage and computation speeds have also improved in recent years. The story, about a jewellery store that had tried to prevent its female employees from flirting with people outside the store, only mentioned "Peppermint" Mary at the end of the piece as an employee who might possibly have caused this and did not answer the question. [25] Bear in mind that, by design, the areas where the Mietpreisbremse applies are areas where demand exceeds supply. There will be more than one applicant per flat, and if you are one of them, you will want to impress your potential future landlord. Emphasising what a tidy, reliable and responsible person you are might be a good idea. Asking inquisitive questions about how the rent had been worked out, and whether it is definitely Mietpreisbremse-compliant, not so much. Schwab, Victor O. (September 1939). "An Advertisement That Is Never Changed". Printers' Ink Monthly: 10–11, 64–65. Berthon, Pierre R.; Fedorenko, Ivan; Pitt, Leyland F.; Ferguson, Sarah Lord (2019). "Can Brand Custodians Cope with Fake News? Marketing Assets in the Age of Truthiness and Post-fact". In Parvatiyar, Atul; Sisodia, Rajendra (eds.). Handbook of Advances in Marketing in an Era of Disruptions: Essays in Honour of Jagdish N. Sheth. SAGE Publications India. ISBN 9789352808182.Götz, Andreas (1997). "The Complete Edition of Murphy's Laws". MurphysLaws.net. Archived from the original on 17 October 2018 . Retrieved 12 May 2019. Gooden, Philip (2015). "Arts". Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule (1sted.). Bloomsbury Information. ISBN 9781472915023. The New York World also famously used a question headline for hedging when editors were unsure of their facts, when it reported the outcome of the 1916 United States presidential election. [26] [27] When other New York City newspapers ran statement headlines on 8 November 1916 saying "Hughes Is Elected" ( The Evening Sun, final edition the night before), "Hughes Is Elected by Narrow Margin" ( The Sun), "Hughes Is Elected by Majority of 40" ( The New York Herald), "Hughes the Next President" ( The Journal of Commerce), "Hughes Sweeps State" ( New York Tribune) and "Nation Swept by Hughes!" ( New York American), the World ran one with a question headline, "Hughes Elected in Close Contest?" [28] Not unless you have already explored every possible way of resolving the situation; grievances polarise people and are rarely constructive experiences.