A computer programmer claims he increased his productivity at work by hiring a woman to slap him every time she catches him looking at Facebook. Maneesh Sethi placed an advertisement on Craigslist to recruit someone willing to monitor what he was looking at on his laptop.

The computer expert and writer from San Francisco now pays a female employee $8 an hour to strike him in the face if she spots him wasting time on social media. Seethi claims the unusual motivational system has helped him boost his productivity from just 35 percent to around 98 percent during the working day.


Would you consider the “Slap Challenge”?