Why Don’t We Eliminate The Word “Productivity” For A Bit, Right?

Most managers have no clue what it means and often confuse it with “monitoring” or “surveillance,” which COVID seemed to make even more apparent.

I was looking over some newsletters recently, and found this article from about a year ago, methinks:

7 workplace resolutions leaders should set in 2023

Within there, the Chief People Officer (ha!) of HubSpot says this:

“I would like to erase the word ‘productivity’ from our discussions,” Burke says. “Oftentimes when we’re talking about productivity, it’s coming down to monitoring… we’re tracking how many times have you logged in, how many emails you’ve sent, are you green on Slack? That idea is rooted in the industrial revolution; it’s not modernized to represent actual business results or…