At JPMorgan, productivity falls for younger employees at home
Never believe stories like this, measuring productivity is an impossible problem.  Microsoft spend something in excess of 3 billion dollars trying to quantify productivity in the 90s and they couldn&#x27;t do it. One of my college professors worked on this exact problem for the Army in the 80s, they created a formal domain specific language for quantifying employee productivity it took them 20 years and several hundred million dollars before they finally realized it wasn&#x27;t generalizable. They had to scrap the entire project.<p>It isnt possible to measure employee productivity because its impossible to properly quantify the relative importance of a task. Properly scoping problems is a massive task and finally its impossible to adjust for employees gaming the system, collusion or simply malicious behavior.<p>Employees always figure out how to abuse productivity metrics.