A recent article: The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score in the New York Times shows how companies are monitoring workplace.

Discuss whether this is good strategy by these companies. Google has threatened to fire workers if they do not "raise their productivity". Is that the wrong way to do things? As this article argues, "unlike the work being done during the Industrial Revolution, today's knowledge economy workers aren't making widgets. They're making ideas. How does one measure and track that? Especially when one good idea is better than 5 0 mediocre ones."