Given that employees of the XYZ Company could, in theory, do their work at home, the company developed a radical plan to increase efficiency: eliminate office-space expenditures by having employees work at home  To evaluate this plan, XYZ' s managers asked volunteers from the company' s staff to try the arrangement for six months
There were several volunteers; significantly, their productivity during this period was as high as or higher than before
The employees who agreed to participate in the test of the plan were among the company's most self-motivated and independent workers.