[sam0x17]

Yeah but what about the highly skilled employee who spends 90% of their time playing online poker and spends 10% of their time producing output on-par with other people in the org that work 100% of the time. There is almost always one of these in any given org.

[januzis]

I would actually be OK with it, as long as I can objectively say that even though someone is slacking most of the time, he/she is very productive in short bursts, so the overall productivity is on par with the team average.

The problem is that if you don't have an objective approach to evaluating productivity, all sorts of biases come in, e.g. if I see someone coming to the office at 11am and leaving at 4pm, I would subjectively rate their productivity lower, even though objectively the results might be the same as for someone who comes in early, and leaves late.

[Smithalicious]

Well are they getting paid 10 times as much as the others?