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Hiring friends and family might actually be good for business – new research

Written by Sheheryar Banuri, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of East Anglia

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Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta/Facebook, recently remarked in a podcast interview that when it came to hiring new staff, his preference was people whose “values aligned in the things that you care about”. This, he said, was akin to “choosing a friend or a life partner”. He...

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