The surveillance for higher status workers is more about always having a reason to manage out a worker more than actually optimizing anything, like they do with

The surveillance for higher status workers is more about always having a reason to manage out a worker more than actually optimizing anything, like they do with lower status workers. We have this problem in the US armed forces rather acutely. Everyone is breaking many rules and regulations daily but the chain of command does nothing about the vast majority of infractions. Reserving enforcement for when they feel like it, for reasons having nothing to do with the actual rules. This is anarcho-tyranny. As a people manager in software I fight this kind of stuff, and I feel like only the most morally compromised managers push it. It’s never an honest attempt to optimize the work. It’s a way to force you to provide evidence for your dismissal.