Really interesting research. I definitely felt something similar when I came to the end of a job recently, after three years in post. I didn't sabotage anything but I did relax a little more and maybe I wasn't as productive as I had been previously, which you could say was 'cheating' slightly.
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Really interesting research. I definitely felt something similar when I came to the end of a job recently, after three years in post. I didn't sabotage anything but I did relax a little more and maybe I wasn't as productive as I had been previously, which you could say was 'cheating' slightly.
That is almost exactly what Daniel Ariely's research on dishonesty is about, this notion of cheating so slightly you don't feel guilty about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBmJay_qdNc