Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers
通过海鲜加工厂的田野实验，发现与朋友一起工作会降低工人生产力，且尽责性高的工人受此影响较小；工人愿意为与朋友相邻工作而放弃4.5%的工资。
Through a field experiment at a seafood-processing plant, I examine how working alongside friends affects employee productivity and how this effect is heterogeneous with respect to an employee’s personality. This paper presents two main findings. First, worker productivity declines when a friend is close enough to socialize with. Second, workers who are higher on the conscientiousness scale show smaller productivity declines when working alongside a friend. Estimates suggest that a median worker is willing to pay 4.5 percent of her wage to work next to friends.