But razors are not the only products where the company's researchers beaver away at innovation.

ECONOMIST: Gillette

Workers tended to beaver away for the first few days of the working week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.

ECONOMIST: Being watched may not affect behaviour, after all

At times like these I suppose we should be thankful for bureaucracies that will beaver away in their assigned bailiwicks largely oblivious (not to say impervious) to the outside world.

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