<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skohan</author><text>The worst part is that none of these are results-based metrics.  These are precisely the kind of things you would measure if you want to create lots of extra meetings and redundant communication.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also incredibly self-serving of MS.  They have essentially defined &amp;quot;productivity&amp;quot; as how much time you spend using MS products.&lt;p&gt;I hope natural selection leads to the shuttering of all the companies which actually try to use this metric to optimize their organization.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>&amp;gt;These metrics include how often workers turn their cameras on during virtual meetings, how frequently they send emails (and how many contain @ mentions), whether they regularly contribute to shared documents or group chats, and the number of days they used Microsoft’s tools such as Word, Excel, Skype, Outlook, or Teams in the last month&lt;p&gt;That sounds like a nightmarish place to work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft&apos;s Creepy New &apos;Productivity Score&apos; Gamifies Workplace Surveillance</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-creepy-new-productivity-score-gamifies-workp-1845763063</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FalconSensei</author><text>&amp;gt; how frequently they send emails&lt;p&gt;Nice, I guess instead of talking to the person next to me and sorting something out in 2 minutes, we can use email, and do it in 30.&lt;p&gt;Also, let&amp;#x27;s see everyone just adding: &amp;#x27;oh, thanks&amp;#x27; or whatever to group chats, just to increase the message count</text><parent_chain><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>&amp;gt;These metrics include how often workers turn their cameras on during virtual meetings, how frequently they send emails (and how many contain @ mentions), whether they regularly contribute to shared documents or group chats, and the number of days they used Microsoft’s tools such as Word, Excel, Skype, Outlook, or Teams in the last month&lt;p&gt;That sounds like a nightmarish place to work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft&apos;s Creepy New &apos;Productivity Score&apos; Gamifies Workplace Surveillance</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-creepy-new-productivity-score-gamifies-workp-1845763063</url></story>