Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Collewet, Marion
Author-workplace-name: Research Centre for Educ and Labour Mark
Author-Name: Sauermann, Jan
Title: Working hours and productivity
Abstract: This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily<br/>information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to estimate the effect of working hours on productivity. We find that as the number of hours worked increases, the average handling time for a call increases, meaning that agents become less productive. This result suggests that fatigue can play an important role, even in jobs with mostly part-time workers.
Classification-JEL: j23,j22,m12,m54
Series: GSBE Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 20170410
Number: 009
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/11923637/RM17009.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 584070
Handle: Repec:unm:umagsb:2017009
DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2017009