That's certainly a good point. But I get the impression that people who feel that way aren't just talking about their employee performance reviews. We had impe

That's certainly a good point. But I get the impression that people who feel that way aren't just talking about their employee performance reviews. We had impersonal, narrowly-defined performance metrics for low-level workers long before computers (see any assembly line, or the increasing speed of the meat packing lines in The Jungle). That the metrics now tend to be tabulated by computer may have extended the practice to more fields, but doesn't seem like a fundamental shift.