Does circumstance cause happiness or the other way around? It is the premise of the article, but I think there is confirmation bias here. Office perks had this

Does circumstance cause happiness or the other way around? It is the premise of the article, but I think there is confirmation bias here. Office perks had this purpose but it is no longer relevant in a remote culture. Now corporations need to snoop into our homes to predict productivity. Employees' lives outside work is not the employer's business, since most often than not, they will abuse it. Ex: They will sack an employee knowing he is unhappy regardless of the reason, creating a spiraling negative feedback loop. The conclusion is very dangerous. It tells management to measure happiness as a predictor to success (and profit for employer). In fact, it is advocating to use employees' personal life as a proxy for performance, an abuse of data.