"Time spent working" is a terrible metric for "gives a shit" and shows me that I wouldn't want to work at this place, but I agree with the general idea that peo

"Time spent working" is a terrible metric for "gives a shit" and shows me that I wouldn't want to work at this place, but I agree with the general idea that people who give a shit are worth a lot of money. Even more important than hiring people who give a shit is not breaking them. Throw enough bullshit hurdles in their way, treat them unfairly, or show that you don't care for long enough, and they will stop giving a shit, and you just reduced the value of that worker at least by a factor of 2, if not more. Even if they still put in the same number of hours. It's the difference between doing what's right vs. doing what's rewarded. If you have people who just do what's right, you don't need a strict reward system. Once you push them towards only going after your rewards, your reward system better be 100% aligned with what's good for the company (spoiler: it isn't anywhere near that), or you're screwed.