Working
Working while watched
The adjustment that actually helps is smaller than people make it, and the large adjustments cost more than the monitoring does.
Working Normally While Watched
The adjustment that actually helps is smaller than people make it, and the large adjustments cost more than the monitoring does.
The Temptation to Perform
Managing the measure is rational and it costs you more than it returns. What the cost actually consists of.
Thinking Time and Looking Idle
The most valuable part of many jobs produces no measurable activity. What that means for you, practically.
Help, Collaboration and the Measured Day
Measurement discourages asking for help and giving it. Both are the behaviours that make a team work, and both decline quietly.
Fatigue and Watched Work
Working under observation is more tiring than working without it, and the effect is cumulative rather than dramatic.
What Not to Do About It
Four responses that feel reasonable and make things worse, including the one this collection deliberately does not help with.