On one hand, the engineer/data scientist in me thinks more data is good. On the other hand, having managed teams, this seems like major compensation for lack o

On one hand, the engineer/data scientist in me thinks more data is good. On the other hand, having managed teams, this seems like major compensation for lack of performance measurement and goal setting. The reality is probably that from a large white-collar corporations perspective employees are viewed more as factory workers, simply expendable warm bodies designed to fill a seat, rather than dynamic knowledge workers. At some point, these types of jobs will simply be automated away.