How the Economic Evaluation of Time Affects Who We Socialize With Off the Job

We examine how pay practices, such as hourly payment, that promote an economic evaluation of time affect people’s choices about with whom to socialize off the job. Using multiple waves of the American Time Use Survey, Study 1a found people paid by the hour spent more time and a greater percentage of their total socializing outside of work in the presence of colleagues, with these effects occurring primarily for high earners for whom time was the...