Putting a Price on Social Connections
Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production
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Editor's note: This is the first in a series, Value of Virtual Friends, exploring the ways our lives are affected—financially and otherwise—by the multiplicity of online social and professional contacts.
Messaging with the boss much? Maybe you ought to be. Workers who have strong communication ties with their managers tend to bring in more money than those who steer clear of the boss, according to a new analysis of social networks in the workplace by IBM (IBM) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.