Applied research, I'm sure.

A Japanese civil servant has been demoted for viewing pornographic websites more than 780,000 times during office hours over a nine-month period. [...] Despite his frequent porn viewing, none of his colleagues noticed his activities.

The man's superiors discovered his extensive porn site visits after his computer became infected with a virus [...].

So, how can you tell when a bureaucrat is doing his/her work? Preliminarily, I'm guessing that this one wasn't.