What is the causal impact of managerial attention on employee attrition, productivity, and well-being? How should firms strategically allocate managerial attention among workers? We formulate a theory that illustrates how different attention allocation strategies influence workers’ updated...

New workers often compare themselves to their high-achieving senior coworkers, but they often do so without knowing how senior workers performed in the early stages of their careers. This upward social comparison under incomplete information can have adverse effects on new workers’ well-being...