I think it's a case of a company doing what it thinks is in its best interests. "Thinks" being the key word. Although I would posit that anybody who think this

I think it's a case of a company doing what it thinks is in its best interests. "Thinks" being the key word. Although I would posit that anybody who think this way hasn't thought about it very hard. I mean, it's trivially obvious that a worker can be in the office, and still contribute absolutely nothing. You can sit at the office, or at home, or in Tahiti, and surf Hacker News all day just the same. At the end of it all, companies that don't know how to measure the productivity of their people, and make any necessary adjustments based on those measurements, are going to get screwed.