Additionally frustrating is that the article takes unquestioningly Microsoft's premise that these metrics have value:

> But that information could also be seen on a user-by-user basis, potentially allowing managers to identify individual employees who weren’t contributing enough

A good manager should identify employees who aren't contributing enough and work with them to understand how to empower them to contribute more. But the way to gauge this is by actually looking at the work they produce; snooping on their computer usage is a poor substitute used by poor managers.