Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

There’s a fine line between being micromanaged and overly surveilled and being monitored enough that you get good work done. That line is actually called the Hawthorne Effect, and it’s a phenomenon in ...

The Hawthorne effect was originally defined in an industrial setting: The Hawthorne Works Plant was studied by researchers at Harvard University who were trying to determine the relationship between ...