The motivation behind this is always interesting to me. When managing, I try to find simple measurable work-output metrics, establish them clearly, and give peo

The motivation behind this is always interesting to me. When managing, I try to find simple measurable work-output metrics, establish them clearly, and give people as much freedom as possible outside of getting work done. I hated being micromanaged as an employee . Plus as a manger I’m not detail-oriented enough to micromanage anyone. It reminds me of a blog I wrote in 2004 while working at Peoplesoft: https://web.archive.org/web/20051104174256/http://www.shon.org/blog/index.php?m=200410#43 https://web.archive.org/web/20051104174256/http://www.shon.o... TLDR: If the lights were on in your office, you were working, even if you weren’t really there. So the game was to figure out a way to keep your lights on without being there and the blog was about that nearly 20 years ago.