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.

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工作中的社交：来自制造业工人现场实验的证据

通过在海鲜加工厂进行的现场实验，我研究了与朋友一起工作如何影响员工的工作效率，以及这种影响在员工个性方面的异质性。本文提出了两个主要发现。首先，当朋友足够亲近可以社交时，员工的工作效率会下降。其次，与朋友一起工作时，责任心较高的员工的生产力下降幅度较小。据估计，中位数员工愿意支付 4.5% 的工资与朋友一起工作。