I will give my own explanation: In corporate America you are always on the chopping block. It doesn’t matter how good you are or how much you have done in the

I will give my own explanation: In corporate America you are always on the chopping block. It doesn’t matter how good you are or how much you have done in the past. Leadership is usually fairly ambivalent to tenure unless you are near retirement. You need to prove you are hustling all the time, because firings and layoffs have become so common that you need to be in the favor of your boss and probably your bosses boss when the hard decisions come down. There is no better way to prove your worth than show how much work you do or how many hours you work. I actually find this creates a lot of wasted motion. Everyone is thrashing around in the water burning a lot of energy when clean purposeful strokes would move everyone a lot further faster, but it doesn’t matter because what people want to see is hustle. You have to be producing all the time. It doesn’t matter so much if it is good, just that it is done and out there. Doggie paddle for all anyone cares, just show that you are swimming the whole time. This isn’t good, or positive, just what I observe.