“If the work is getting done, why monitor?”
Because you have people aching to use their business degrees to show they can improve productivity. As far as I can tell, it seems business types are being taught that if you micromanage your people down to 15 minute increments, you can really make them productive!
Not sure how that works with the young indoctrinated mush heads, but I can tell you, this old war horse would not prosper under such conditions.
About 2010 or 11, the counseling industry started doing “productivity monitoring.” They charted the number of words and lengths of chart entries. People did so much of this crap, they didn’t spend time with their clients. It was all about pleasing bureaucrats and insurance companies. I always stayed a step ahead of working at one of those.
I work at home. Full time. Everyone in the company works from home. Owner/department manager decided to do a time study. Listing everything we did that day. My first one I wrote every single thing I did that day….including….bathroom break 5 minutes….fixed me a cup of coffee, 2 minutes. I transcribed it all into an email and at the bottom put…..all this time study did is waste about 1 1/2 hrs of my day. They never asked me to do it again. 😂