Exactly. Treat adult employees like adults, Netflix-style.

Another aspect is near-realtime organization-visible projects, issue status (and ticket system) and KPIs that show attribution to prove people to gain visibilty and credit to avoid “what does person X do all day?” This also makes performance reviews more automated for both sides of the table.

Having unified, unform tiers of performance management processes that ensure minimum of staff and management fudging plus including qualitative, 360 feedback also helps scale the management and HR layers.