We seem to have this drive to abstract people and teams and processes, we call it Taylorism, Scientific Management, with an end result of being able to declare with scientific assurance this person, this group is not carrying their expected load. Now, this is a lot of work, and this is not really necessary if these groups actually had open and trusted communications. But we rare to never have trust, real trust between work teams and work peers. So, rather than expend the effort to create such trust and do the hard work of creating high functioning teams, we create a tracking surveillance environment where your hamster wheel must spin as fast as everyone else, or you are fired. And that is why so many companies have so much busy work while never really going anywhere.