Bosses who want their workers to be more productive are better off sharing their salary than forcing them back to office

Bosses worried about productivity are trying to get their workers back in the office. But they might be better off spilling how much they make instead.

When managers make their salary information public, it spurs employees to work harder, finds a new working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), written by Harvard Business School professor Zoë Cullen. She found that a sample of 2,060 workers at a large commercial bank worked harder after learning that their managers are better paid than they’d previously thought. READ MORE