Remote work and effort provision in teams

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Remote work policies remain controversial partly because of productivity concerns, which are potentially exacerbated in team settings. Using experiments, we isolate how location-based beliefs of teammate effort affect the own-effort choices of participants assigned to work with remote and office-based teammates. Participants perform a real effort task and can contribute this effort to an individual account, paying a piece rate wage, or to a team account using a minimum-effort payment scheme. We find that remote workers do not complete fewer tasks than their office-based counterparts. Yet, teams suffer from lower effort due to workers responding to beliefs that remote teammates contribute less effort to the team. In a follow-up treatment, we demonstrate that these location-based beliefs remain salient even under a revenue-sharing team payment scheme where beliefs of free-riding may have dominated. Finally, we provide unique evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic may have shifted beliefs to be more pessimistic about the effort of remote workers but did not alter the actual effort.
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Authors E Glenn Dutcher, Krista J. Saral
Journal the economic journal
Year 2026
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10.1093/ej/ueag106
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https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag106
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