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This always-on culture we're in is awful. How do we stop it? Oh, sorry, hold on – just had another notification

Pascal Monett Silver badge

"measure what they deliver"

I will never forget that time I accompanied a friend of mine to a presentation concerning an accounting package. He wanted me to come with him because, in the early 90s, I was an accountant.

At the presentation, there was the two of us, and two guys from an accounting company. Two young, cocky guys.

They spent the entire presentation asking about the the functionalities allowing them to trace employees down to the keystroke.

Remember, this was the early 90s, when the 486DX2 was the pinnacle of technology. And here I was, discovering that an accounting package was spending more CPU resources on spying on its users for the pleasure of management than actually doing its job of managing accounts.

That was one hell of an eye-opener for me.

My friend chose to not take that package.

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