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The early years of the strip regularly featured office humor. Johnson claims he was "doing office humor when [[Scott Adams]] worked for the phone company", but he used the theme less frequently over time. Johnson has attributed that decline to two factors. First, his memories of own his experiences in an office setting began to fade as he became ensconced in his cartooning, leaving him "neither inclined nor qualified to comment on 'the office.'" Second, he feels that with the concept of traditional "careers" falling by the wayside, his middle-aged title characters would tend to center their lives around relationships and home. Seldom were jobs even mentioned as time passed, and by 2017, Johnson felt he needed to address the suspicion of readers that Arlo and Janis were retired. While proclaiming they retained their usual undefined jobs, Johnson allowed that Arlo and Janis were in "that winding-down phase of employment."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arloandjanis.com/2017/05/16 |title=Harpe diem |publisher=Arloandjanis.com |date=May 16, 2017 |accessdate=2017-06-23}}</ref>