> everyone to your left, right, and behind you being able to see your screen This always bugged me, did some research while writing this answer, so TIL it's ca

> everyone to your left, right, and behind you being able to see your screen This always bugged me, did some research while writing this answer, so TIL it's called the audience effect [1]: when a person’s behavior changes because they believe someone else is watching them. At some level it reminds me of the double-slit experiment and how the interference pattern disappears once you start measuring through which slit the particle goes. Do some results fundamentally require their process to stay hidden to the observer if they're ever to see the light of day? Still wondering... [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095155/ Edit: above link about the audience effect emphasizes the belief of being watched: horse blinders, by constraining your wide field of view to your screen may certainly limit the distractions of whatever motion your hardwired brain would have noticed in your peripheral vision, however, is the illusion of privacy sufficient to limit the audience effect? Certainly, you'll stay aware that the coworker on your left will keep looking at your screen even if you can't see them? (unless you don't believe in object permanence but let's keep it simple). So, maybe it works for horses but even there, quoting wikipedia: "Not all horses can stand blinders, some get very nervous if they can't see their surroundings."