Business, Management and Accounting
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Working in groups boosts productivity in low-meaning tasks, study finds.

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The role of task meaning on output in groups: Experimental evidence
Agnes Bäker, Mario Mechtel

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Low task meaning can reduce individual work output, but working with a peer can counteract this effect. When working alone, low task meaning leads to lower output, but this effect disappears when working with a peer. This suggests that working in groups can be helpful in environments where tasks lack clear meaning.