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Do bonuses actually make us work harder?

Do bonuses actually make us work harder?

Update: 2024-02-21

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Many of us have worked in environments that provided bonuses or rewards for success. Maybe they took the form of team rewards or individual incentives, or end of year profit-share schemes. But do these rewards achieve what they are designed to?

Professor Uri Gneezy is the world's foremost expert on the science of incentives - and he comes with a huge warning about what such schemes actually achieve.

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is today hosted by Bruce Daisley, Ellen Scott and Matthew Cook.

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Do bonuses actually make us work harder?

Do bonuses actually make us work harder?