This reminded me that I needed to recommend the fantastic book The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart. In it, you get the bullshit history of Scientific Management, along with an exposé on just the kind of fraud that its popularizer, F. Winslow Taylor. indiebound.org/book/978039333…
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1331266225675137024
Management consultant charlatans have tried to apply scientific methods to the monitoring of employees for well over a hundred years. It's a field that's built on a foundation of scientism, used to demean and abuse workers, and inflate the ego of a useless managerial class.
And that's exactly what Microsoft is promoting here. Ranking and outing employees on bullshit metrics. I'm sure there's a plan to integrate Lines of Code Written via Github soon enough. Makes about as much sense as counting mentions or chat hours or whatever the fuck else.
Being under constant surveillance in the work place is psychological abuse. Having to worry about looking busy for the stats is the last thing we need to inflict on anyone right now. This Office 365 on-by-default workplace surveillance regime is morally bankrupt at its core.
What's so insidious about the Office 365 pitch is that, like, Taylor, Microsoft is trying to spin this as actually being good for workers. Knowing more about your work day! Together with management! It'll be great. Taylor pioneered this deceit. 
One way to crystalize just how creepy this scheme is is by imagining a person with a stopwatch and a clipboard sitting behind you. Meticulously recording how long you spend on each task, compiling a dossier on everyone doing the same, then reporting the findings to management.
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