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While every human resources practitioner can recall funny situations that happened at work, HR is usually not the place people think of when they need a good laugh. However, humour can add value to a workplace and that’s where it gets interesting for HR. In 1964, columnist Joseph Alsop wrote that humour is a very different thing from the capacity to make jokes. This is a crucial distinction. One of my former colleagues described humour