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Public Administration · 2016

Thanks, but No Thanks: Preferences towards Teleworking Colleagues in Public Organizations

Italian civil servants strongly preferred coworkers who work in the office.

Mele, Valentina · Mele2021

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01 / Human finding

What the study found

Italian civil servants strongly preferred coworkers who work in the office.

Paper page 8

Answer-key review: AI-reviewed

02 / Experiment design

Who chose, and what varied

Country
Italy
Human respondents
Not recorded
Attributes
5
Task
discrete choice

03 / Synthetic replication

Registry replication results

Current replication

Spearman rank correlation

Not measured

No current measurement is available in this registry.

Paper-era reference

2023 CLM mean Spearman ρ

0.19

Historical results use their original estimator and reference. They are not a matched comparison with the current run.

Detailed replication evidence · 2026-09-29

Wrong direction on 2 of 6 significant effects, weak ranking (ρ = 0.30); sizes not comparable (the paper reports logit coefficients).

Use it to generate hypotheses to test with people; sizes need the paper's respondent data, and confirm the 2 reversed effects with people.

Inspect the measured run ↗

direction
fails
rank
fails
size
not comparable

Supported uses

  • Nothing yet without human confirmation.

Limits to keep in view

  • Ranking close levels against each other; the order diverges from humans.
  • Decisions that hinge on the attributes whose direction flipped (listed below).
  • Effect sizes in the paper's units; only direction, rank and shape are compared.

Effects on a common scale

Human effects: logit coefficient. Synthetic effects are multiplied by the record’s calibration factor, k = 2.1789. Calibration aligns magnitude; it does not establish agreement in unadjusted effect sizes.

● Human   ◆ Calibrated synthetic · Lines show human 95% intervals where available.
-1.0301.03Gender: This coworker's gender is maleGender: This coworker's gender is maleAge: This coworker's age is 45 years oldAge: This coworker's age is 45 years oldAge: This coworker's age is 51 years oldAge: This coworker's age is 51 years oldNumber of children : This coworker has 3 childrenNumber of children : This coworker has 3 ch…Work schedule: This coworker's schedule is part-timeWork schedule: This coworker's schedule is …Teleworking status: This coworker works 3 days a week from home and the remaining 2 days in the officeTeleworking status: This coworker works 3 d…
Human and calibrated synthetic effects
Attribute / levelHumanHuman 95% half-widthCalibrated synthetic
Gender: This coworker's gender is female (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Gender: This coworker's gender is male-0.1300.059-0.305
Age: This coworker's age is 39 years old (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Age: This coworker's age is 45 years old-0.0900.0780.034
Age: This coworker's age is 51 years old-0.1000.078-0.174
Number of children : This coworker has 1 child (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Number of children : This coworker has 3 children-0.1400.059-0.488
Work schedule: This coworker's schedule is full-time (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Work schedule: This coworker's schedule is part-time-0.4800.059-0.680
Teleworking status: This coworker works 5 days a week in the office (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Teleworking status: This coworker works 3 days a week from home and the remaining 2 days in the office-0.8800.0590.140

04 / Evidence and limitations

Follow the evidence

Missing results mean unmeasured, not zero agreement.

    Measurement provenance

    Registry revision: 648f40378e9c. Estimator: ols.