And let's be clear: those are all the things that productive employees avoid like the plague.
What are you producing which is correlated with using any of those services?
If more information comes out, it'll be a useful case study in using measures anti-correlated with your actual business objectives.
This seems an extremely common practice by middle-management, whose activity is largely anti-correlated with aggregate business production. (Ie., middle-management activity should be operating at a minimum necessary for production; increasing it will cause productivity to drop).
There’s an inflection point as a manager where you realize that your employees are better than you at a thing you used to do really well. So your new job is to put them on assignments that will help them grow, provide a safety net if anything goes wrong, and get out of the way.
The flip side is that you have to trust people. I’ve certainly had employees who basically didn’t show up to work. Their team members complained because it was more work on them. That’s a situation where I stepped in, tried to figure out what was wrong, but ultimately had to let the person go because they hadn’t made a pull request in months and didn’t have a good explanation as to why.
> So your new job is to put them on assignments that will help them grow, provide a safety net if anything goes wrong, and get out of the way.
I talk to my boss about once a week, social hallway chats excluded. Rest of the week I just do what needs to be done.
He mentioned to me soon after joining that he had learned that the less he's in the way of us developers, the more productive we are. So he trusts us to do what we're assigned to do and handle issues that come up. Once in a while he'll come and ask me to handle some specific case ASAP or make sure I know some deadlines, but it's very rare.
What are you producing which is correlated with using any of those services?
If more information comes out, it'll be a useful case study in using measures anti-correlated with your actual business objectives.
This seems an extremely common practice by middle-management, whose activity is largely anti-correlated with aggregate business production. (Ie., middle-management activity should be operating at a minimum necessary for production; increasing it will cause productivity to drop).