'Moreover, such temporal prospective can allow to identify and take into account a frequent long-term process that recent literature has identified and named “normalization of deviance": individuals or teams end up accepting a lower standard of performance (“deviant behaviours”) until that lower standard becomes acceptable. For example, Bogard et al. (2015) report that in American refineries alarms are triggered whenever equipment experiences deviations beyond defined standards, but workers, after a year, start being less worried about it and reacting more slowly, with a reduction of the accepted minimum safety threshold. Behavioural interventions should therefore try to identify system factors that promote behaviours acting against normalization of deviance.'
https://www.aidic.it/cet/20/82/024.pdf

'When working conditions are harsh, workers are more likely to find satisfaction through small acts of deviant behaviour instead of banding together or joining a union, my research shows.
I interviewed 30 unskilled workers from five different sites in the greater Brisbane region. The workers came from large, centralised retail, automotive and food wholesaler workplaces and were under strict instruction and surveillance. I asked them about how they manage and organise their shifts.
The people working in these precarious conditions often concealed anxieties or insecurities about the role that work performs in their life. Their insecurities, however, emerged through deviant practices and cynical or apathetic behaviours to work.
Deviant actions involved cutting corners, avoiding paperwork and often avoiding health and safety procedures. Workers operated subtly in order to avoid detection from management.'
https://theconversation.com/workers-fight-back-with-deviant-...

For further info and examples, have a look at this link (in Italian),
https://tinyurl.com/y4omzy2y