>This has led to many of them instilling dollar limits or demanding proof of increased productivity (not just output)

They should have done that from the beginning - demanding proof of increased productivity - if that was their goal. otherwise they were not using their brains well enough.

And you doubly don't want to work with them, first because they confused output with productivity at first. and second, because they're parroting the productivity metric.

You only need one guess for whose pockets the productivity benefits go into.

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