Productivity and Working Hours Within Teams of Knowledge Workers

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shangguan, Ruo; Devaro, Jed; Owan, Hideo
• 署名单位: Jinan University; Waseda University
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12769
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: Incentives

摘要

Modern workplaces extensively use teams of white-collar knowledge workers to complete complex projects. Data on architects designing construction projects in a Japanese firm reveal that a five-person team's highest contributor invests over 60% of the team's working hours. Following the financial crisis of 2008, the average team productivity increased by 8.9%, while hours became more concentrated within teams. A theoretical model of team productivity is used to explain the changes. The counterfactual exercise finds that 40.3% of the team productivity increase is attributed to an increase in individual worker productivity, and 59.7% of the increase is due to hours reallocation.