It's because most managers are incapable. They want to make sure that employees are spending the time. They don't care about actual production value. This make

It's because most managers are incapable. They want to make sure that employees are spending the time. They don't care about actual production value. This makes no sense in a capitalist society. Of course, that's not the reason why companies hire so many people in the first place. It's all for politics. So why bother to make them work at all in the first place? Why not hire people and give them free money? To be fair, they can hire using a random number generator.