> efficiency encouragers

That is quite the title. Imagine if they would just work and you actually had someone to help you. A whole new universe of productivity.

I genuinely shiver when I read language like this despite being very much a corporate child. I count my blessings that, at least until now, even when I was tracked, my boss either cared about results or 'metrics' were good enough or the boss liked me.

I am not entirely certain how to prepare a child for this world. Short of running your own company, it will be hard to avoid the beast.

I suspect double speak will be elevated to a new artform. a large corporation has no standard basis by which t judge output. Managers may love your work, but it's hard to objectively quantify whether they have the right calibration.

Software that automatically says “you should push how harder”, “john is harming morale”, “jane is overworking”. Will be too tempting for a detached senior leadership to resist.

At my firm, laptops seem to have mysteriously gotten slower recently, chrome now regularly crashes on moderately sized documents. I would be surprised if it's not spyware related.

I'm moving over to a Linux machine as soon as I can, that way I can benefit from lack of software support.

We're used to a comfortable and secure world.

The fact is the world is not by default this way. Sometimes people have to fight, and die, for rights.