'Work smarter not harder': Dakota Johnson's Office cameo gets a second life on Peacock

The short tags Oscar Nunez and Brian Baumgartner beside her, and its comment section has turned into an accounting class with jokes about Kevin.

Channel: PeacockStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 133,747 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (7,263).

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"Work smarter not harder" is a short clip from The Office on Peacock, the NBCUniversal streaming service that is home to the series. Its hashtags name the three people in it: Dakota Johnson, Oscar Nunez and Brian Baumgartner. Nunez and Baumgartner played Oscar and Kevin, two of Dunder Mifflin's accountants. Johnson's part was much smaller: she turned up in the series finale in 2013, a couple of years before Fifty Shades of Grey made her a household name.

That small part may explain the comments. Several viewers ask which episode the clip comes from, saying they do not remember it at all. Others go straight to the joke. The most liked reply treats the clip as proof that Kevin had been embezzling from the company all along, and someone who studied accounting at university says it lands differently now. Eleven hours in, the short had drawn about five times as many comments as a usual Peacock short gets in its entire first day.

It was close to 90,000 views by then, far ahead of the rest of Peacock's day. That included a longer Office scene from season 4, with Michael, Dwight and Jim going undercover at the Utica branch, which had passed 4,000. A SAW short for October did best among the others, at just under 12,000.

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The numbers

A Peacock short usually ends its first day with a few thousand views. This one was well past that within hours.

the video's first day

usual first day here

7,263

this video

133,747

subscribers

3,450,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

6,076,634,654

views per day

3,219,843

typical day: 1,946,361

the video

views

87,953

likes

1,282

comments

37

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

VH1

3,540,000

Oscars

3,470,000

Bravo

3,460,000

Peacock

3,450,000

ABC

3,290,000

HBO

3,260,000

As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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