> To add to this, I really want to know why they felt they need to do this? My guess is someone was abusing the existing system and they needed to set tighter c

> To add to this, I really want to know why they felt they need to do this? My guess is someone was abusing the existing system and they needed to set tighter controls? My guess is some manager got it in his head to gather some bullshit metrics and evaluate people on them, and the affected employees are so low-status that they don't have the political power to push back. There's also probably a pretty but useless graph on a powerpoint involved.