Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

5o MOTION STUDY the workman to dress in a costume specially adapted to his work, or to strip almost to the athlete’s suit, with a consequent increased number and effectiveness of motions. The degree of temperature and the percentage of humid- ity desired for each day of the year should be determined. The man in charge of the heating should receive no bonus for small consumption of fuel unless he also maintained the temperature and humidity called for on his instruc- tion card. The subjects of heating, ventilating, etc., are well cov- ered by Mr. Hugo Diemer in his book on “ Factory Organ- ization and Administration.” The proper time to consider these subjects is when the building is designed, but too often at that time the all-important question is, — How cheaply can the building be built? Ultimate saving will justify almost any conceivable first costs. Lighting The subject of lighting has, indirectly as well as directly, a great influence upon output and motions, as upon the comfort of the eye depends, to a large extent, the comfort of the whole body. The arrangement of lighting in the average office, fac- tory, or house is generally determined by putting in the least light necessary in order that the one who deter- mined the location of the light may be able to see perfectly. This is wrong. The best light is the cheapest. By that is not meant that which gives the brightest light. In fact,