The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score

This is the norm in healthcare - show high hourly rates for recruitment and pay you only for the time spent with the patient. You are given a productivity target (like 85%) and constantly under pressure to spend as little time as possible on company overhead (for necessary documentation). Some people just give up, clock out and do the paperwork in their own time.

Eventually people just start leaving the industry all together.

Any company that substitutes surveillance in the place of emotional maturity is going to have a real bad time in the long run. You don't get creative, well-functioning adults that can adapt on a dime by treating them like drones.

(sauce : coming from a manager that would rather quit on the spot than use / be monitored like how the article describes. absolutely dystopian!)

"It’s a way to really just focus on the results" is a wild quote from someone just making sure a mouse is moving and keyboard buttons are pressed the correct number of times per day.

Companies like to talk about how they're a family, but imagine the reaction if you tried to track your wife or your husband like this. It would correctly be seen as incredibly abusive- because it is.

the tracking isn't that big of a deal, if it's used responsibly, but every example is abuse of tracking.