There are no lazy workers, if the jobs are easy

PERHAPS, the oldest documentation on how employees became lazy was in the form of soldiering, a term used to describe how conscripts worked like mechanical robots by mindlessly following orders from their military generals. Talk of "obey first, before you complain." In the 1900s, soldiering was used side-by-side with Scientific Management by efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915).

In many of his soldiering experiments, Taylor noticed that many workers who performed repetitive tasks were seen slowing down on their production for various reasons. That happened because lazy workers go unpunished. Others failed to do more than what was necessary because they received the same amount of pay with other workers.