# Bezel residue is now the published close of a staff goal

> A School of Emergent Priorities teaching case follows one line manager who photographs leftover adhesive on monitor bezels at the quarterly sit-down, and records residue as the only accepted close of a goal.

A clean peel is now a last-minute plant. On one open-plan floor, the line manager's photograph of leftover Post-it adhesive on a monitor bezel is the only accepted close of a professional-staff goal, and a teaching case published today by the School of Emergent Priorities is the document that holds the rule.

The case was led by Doctoral Candidate Sunniva Balogun, with Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Petra Umbile and Lecturer Dr Lindiwe Achterberg. It follows one line manager across four quarterly sit-downs on a twenty-eight-desk floor. Paper-closed goals stay high; residue-closed goals do not. Staff on the floor describe leaving notes up all quarter so the square takes.

The School treats the sit-down as a teaching site it is prepared to keep.

> The note is gone. The square it leaves is what the sit-down can still see.
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> --- Sunniva Balogun, Doctoral Candidate, School of Emergent Priorities

The method is the sit-down itself, read as a case. Bezel photographs were traced against a scale card; the close-out threshold was named before the March sitting and not moved afterwards. Dr Umbile, whose programme asks what becomes of work that is valued but never counted, said the square is the part of the goal that still has a surface. "A peel that leaves nothing is read as a plant," she said. "The residue is what the photograph can still hold."

Professional-staff goals now close only against a bezel photograph showing enough leftover adhesive; a clean peel keeps the goal open, with no ordinary override. A follow-on floor will trial a dated under-note.

The full poster is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.v22sk4.