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Instructions for employers on new Employees placement

Problem:

1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
2. Put new employees in the room and close the door.
3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.
4. Analyse the situation:
Solution
If they:
• a. are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting.
• b. are recounting them, put them in Auditing.
• c. have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering.
• d. are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning.
• e. are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.
• f. are sleeping, put them in Security.
• g. have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.
• h. are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.
• i. say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.
• j. have already left for the day, put them in Marketing.
• k. are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.
• l. are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management .

Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Government