“MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK”
PRODUCTION SUFFERS (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Bing Crosby and hymns definitely slow production in factories, according to a summary of information on “music while you work,” prepared by the Industrial Welfare Division of the Department of Labour and National SerYICG. Researchers at the Australian ammunition factory during the war found that slow crooners' had a detrimental effect, on production as operators tended to work on their rhythm. Very slow waltzes, rumbas and hot music were also discovered to slow up, production. Rhythmic dance music preferably non-vocal Avas favoured by the executives of most plants to aid work
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 303, 4 October 1946, Page 3
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