> That sounds dystopian to me already (maybe because I'm not in the US? My singular anecdote: I worked for a company I won’t name but you’d be familiar with if

> That sounds dystopian to me already (maybe because I'm not in the US? My singular anecdote: I worked for a company I won’t name but you’d be familiar with if you work in tech. We did a lot of expansion and hiring in European offices. The EU managers were far more likely to track and show things like number of lines of code written and they’d want to publicly reward employees who worked nights and weekends. Not all of them, of course, but it was common enough that we had to spend some time training that habit out of some of those teams when they came on. We had a few projects that went bad because the teams were chasing vanity metrics like number of commits, number of lines of code written, or number of Jira tickets closed. It happens in the US, too, but it’s definitely not a US-specific thing. I won’t even begin to talk about some of the draconian work time measurements that happened in our Asian offices. The work culture in some countries is… harsh.