The article is just another glorification of data for nothing but attention and branding of the religion called Google.
Gamification of the work place where it is tracked with how many people you have had lunch sounds like a dystopia straight from Black Mirror.
It appears that Google's employee force seems to consist out of easily offended weak individuals with lots of social problems. Visit a tech talk with Google employees present, wait for one of them to ask a question and observe their behavior.
Just like the pan-sexual squirrel oriented 0.001% of the world these weird people try to convince the rest of the world that what they are doing is normal in such publications.
It's not normal; it's sick. We used to lock these people up such that the people upholding and paying for the fabric of society wouldn't be bothered by these mentally ill people.
Tech companies found a way to extract value out of some of these mentally ill people and as such a cost reduction results for governments as well as a tax increase. The downside is for their co-workers which need to cope with literally, crazy people.