Employers often overestimate how well new hires understand employment terms, new research in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes warns. According to the study, 52% of hiring managers believed their recent hires fully comprehended the terms of their employment, while only 20% of employees felt the same.In a recent Harvard Business Review article, study authors Rachel Schlund (University of Chicago) and Vanessa Bohns (Cornell University) argue that their findings highlight a gap between legal consent and employees' true understanding of workplace policies. While the study did not specifically target the design profession, the issue is particularly relevant in architecture firms, where new hires often not only sign complex agreements, but are introduced to firm-specific approaches to software, file management, and design workflows.Several psychological biases point to the mistakes we make when assessing others subjective experiences, Schlund and Bohns ...