Working From Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?
利用英国面板数据，研究发现在家办公降低了员工仅获得个人绩效薪酬的可能性，而增加了获得集体绩效薪酬的可能性，这有助于抵消在家办公对协作的负面影响。
ABSTRACT Working from home (WFH) reduces real‐time visibility of employees within the physical space of the workplace. This makes it difficult to monitor employees’ work behaviour. Employers may instead monitor employees’ outputs and provide incentives through performance pay. The crucial question is what type of performance pay employers provide to incentivize employees who work from home. Using British panel data, we find that WFH decreases the likelihood of solely receiving individual performance pay. It increases the likelihood of receiving collective performance pay—with or without individual performance pay. This pattern also holds in instrumental variable estimations accounting for endogeneity. Our findings fit theoretical considerations. WFH means that employees have less opportunities to socialize at work entailing the tendency that they focus on personal achievement and neglect collaboration. Solely rewarding individual performance may reinforce this tendency. By contrast, employers reward collective performance as it counteracts the adverse effects of WFH by providing incentives for collaboration, helping on the job and information sharing.