A company found that new employees prefer training sessions of moderate length; shorter training sessions provided too little instruction to complete a task, while longer training sessions contain too much instruction to remember. for a training session on a particular task, the company determined that the ratings new employees gave for the training session

With any task that needs to be completed there must be instructions. If the instruction is too short there is not enough information given to complete the task correctly. If the instruction is too long in length important items can and will be forgotten. With a survey that was conducted by new employees, the average worker could complete the task with moderate instruction.