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This study examines peer effects among employees working fully remotely. We use panel data from a company that has operated with an entirely remote workforce since its inception and leverage as-if random assignment of new hires to teams as a quasi-natural experiment. We find no evidence that the average productivity of a worker’s teammates affects that worker’s own productivity. However, when team members are highly experienced, the productivity of employees on those teams increases by about 12.2%. In particular, employees with the shortest tenure see an increase in productivity of approximately 26.2%. Furthermore, this effect appears unrelated to the volume of communication within the team, suggesting that experienced teammates can have a positive influence even with minimal interaction, possibly through more efficient, targeted communication.本研究探讨了全远程办公员工之间的同伴效应（peer effects）。我们采用一家自创立起便采用完全远程办公模式的企业的面板数据（panel data），并将新员工被类随机分配（as-if random assignment）至各团队的设定作为准自然实验（quasi-natural experiment）开展分析。研究结果显示，并无证据表明员工所在团队的平均队友生产力会对其自身生产力产生影响。但当团队成员整体经验较为丰富时，该团队内员工的生产力将提升约12.2%。具体而言，任职年限最短的员工其生产力提升幅度约为26.2%。此外，该效应似乎与团队内部的沟通频次并无关联，这表明经验丰富的队友即便在互动极少的情况下仍可产生正向影响，其路径可能是通过更高效、更具针对性的沟通实现。