Original Commentary

There were similar issues with this comic as there were with the ND above... I think we're both just exhausted (or, at the least, I'm exhausted while writing and he's exhausted while reading).

I remember hearing a story, years upon years ago... where GE was doing a factory test to see if the lighting they used made a difference in productivity... but they found that anything they did made the workers work better, because they felt they were being watched. Growing up, I always thought what that story meant was that the workers worked harder because they were happy... but now I realize it was because they felt under the gun. I have a feeling Brisbane heard that story too, at least once. -Isabel

Modern Commentary
What we're discussing in the original commentary is the Hawthorne Effect.

Similarly, when we started working from home, productivity went up because we wanted to make sure that it didn't seem like a bad idea... - Terrence