Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

VARIABLES OF THE SURROUNDINGS 49 “The four packers under me,” says the writer, a Ger- man white, who was working with peons at packing tobacco in Mexico, ‘knew no greater joy than to listen to a fairy tale with the regulation princess and dragon, and if I could but tell them one, or one of their number did so, the work went twice as fast, and they were happy.” The excellent and direct effects of entertainment upon health, fatigue, etc., are subjects for the scientist to study and the planning department and the welfare worker to apply. The effects of entertainment upon output should be studied by the student of motion economy. This variable alone furnishes a vast field for investigation. Heating, Cooling, Ventilating Heating, cooling, ventilating, and humidizing are closely allied, because all can be done with one and the same apparatus, and all greatly increase the workman’s comfort, health, and possible number of motions. Maintaining desired temperature in summer as well as winter by forcing into workrooms air that has been passed over heating or refrigerating coils has a great effect on the workman. Many factories, such as chocolate factories, have found that cooling the air for better results to the manufacturing process also enables the workers to pro- duce more output — an output quite out of proportion to the cost of providing the air. In many trades requiring great alertness and physical strength the proper heating and ventilating will allow