[undulation]

Interesting but is this surprising? I imagine a good portion of those looking for an internal transfer are yearning for a change; once rejected internally, the only place to look is beyond your current company...

[joiguru]

Surprising-ness is a not a good metric to measure social/psychological science research by. Often a statement and its opposite can be intuitive.

If the opposite result was stated here one could have easily come up with many "intuitive" explanations.