>>508995531>>508995962When you look up the actual article, it was a company that had 4 groups of workers on a computer chip factory production line
Each group was promised something if they had good production that week - pizza, $30, words of encouragement, or nothing
The group that was getting pizza improved 6.7% while the "encouragement" group was 6.6%, cash 4.9%
Then the cash group dropped down to under-perform, meaning that there was something else affecting it, not the promise of reward
In short, it was a tiny test with shitty control groups and probably not reproducible.
But it gets clicks, so that's all that matters
https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/pizza-trumps-cash-bonuses-to-boost-productivity-legitimate-study-finds.html