Replication data for: Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers

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.

本研究通过在海鲜加工厂开展的实地实验，考察了与好友一同共事如何影响员工生产率，以及该影响如何随员工人格特质产生异质性差异。本文主要得到两项核心结论：其一，当身边有可进行社交互动的好友时，员工的生产率会出现下降；其二，尽责性（conscientiousness）得分更高的员工，在与好友共事时的生产率下降幅度更小。估算结果显示，中位员工愿意牺牲相当于其工资4.5%的成本，以换取与好友毗邻共事的机会。