I think in general, that's the industrial-age worldview of the "suits", where a business is a money-making machine, with worker productivity measured as an obje

I think in general, that's the industrial-age worldview of the "suits", where a business is a money-making machine, with worker productivity measured as an objective quantity, a mechanical force that converts to profit. It's a kind of scientism, a worship of numbers and charts, like economics.