A university study finds that while research has shown loyal workers offer numerous benefits to employers, they tend to be exploited by being asked to do unpaid work and additional job tasks where less committed colleagues are not.
In the study, published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, nearly 1,400 managers were presented with various scenarios around a fictional 29-year-old employee named John. They were told John’s employer was looking to reduce expenses and asked to rate their willingness to assign John extra hours and duties without additional pay.
