Why Would a Firm Knowingly Hire Lazy Employees

question 8

Multiple Choice

Why would a firm knowingly hire lazy employees?

• A) Lazy employees have positive marginal revenue product.
• B) Lazy employees have successfully sued firms in the past.
• C) The Americans with Disabilities Act mandates that laziness be considered a disability.
• D) Lazy employees make hard-working employees look good.

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Definitions:

Doggerel

Verse or words that are poorly written or expressed, often characterized by irregularities or crudeness.

Paasche Price Index

The Paasche Price Index is a consumer price index used to measure the change over time in the prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, weighted by the purchases made in the current period.

Doggerel

A term unrelated to economics, referring to irregularly or poorly constructed verse, often of a humorous or trivial nature.

Paasche Price Index

An economic indicator that measures the change over time in the cost of a fixed basket of consumer goods and services, using the current period as the base.