{"id":23863,"date":"2008-01-09T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/01\/09\/the-impact-of-hardworking-employees-on-their-less-diligent-colleagues\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T10:00:01","slug":"the-impact-of-hardworking-employees-on-their-less-diligent-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080109-01\/?p=23863","title":{"rendered":"The impact of hardworking employees on their less diligent colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\"> <i>Slate<\/i><\/a> investigates the question &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2155741\">Do hardworking employees make their slacker colleagues more productive?<\/a>&#8221; Tim Harford cites the study <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.haas.berkeley.edu\/amas\/peersatwork.pdf\"> Peers at Work<\/a> by Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti which used a grocery store check-out line as its laboratory, and the results are illuminating. (It may be hard to find, but the key paragraph is in the middle of page&nbsp;4, the one that begins, &#8220;We find that&#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate investigates the question &#8220;Do hardworking employees make their slacker colleagues more productive?&#8221; Tim Harford cites the study Peers at Work by Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti which used a grocery store check-out line as its laboratory, and the results are illuminating. (It may be hard to find, but the key paragraph is in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-23863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Slate investigates the question &#8220;Do hardworking employees make their slacker colleagues more productive?&#8221; Tim Harford cites the study Peers at Work by Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti which used a grocery store check-out line as its laboratory, and the results are illuminating. (It may be hard to find, but the key paragraph is in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}