> This is akin to having school focus on attendance instead of test scoring
This example is funny because tying school performance to standardized test scores has been a disaster that makes overall schooling less effective in favor of "teach the test".
More numeric performance metrics would have people work the metrics, not do the work effectively. IE back when programmers were measured by LOC, so they wrote senselessly verbose code to play the metric.
Oh, believe me, I picked that somewhat on purpose. Like I said, I'm not convinced that remote is amazing. I'm also far from convinced that OKRs are. Google just has the curse that, in a rising tide, all measures go up. Similarly, in a falling one...
This example is funny because tying school performance to standardized test scores has been a disaster that makes overall schooling less effective in favor of "teach the test".
More numeric performance metrics would have people work the metrics, not do the work effectively. IE back when programmers were measured by LOC, so they wrote senselessly verbose code to play the metric.