[ryall]

I understand that managers have a need to keep track of how their team members are performing, and that their job is a lot harder when their team is working remotely.

But I think It's possible to collect productivity metrics without obliterating employee trust.

I'm working on a tool to do this but I’ve stalled in the project because I’m having a hard time reconciling whether it benefits companies enough to pay for it (It seems geared towards employees more than companies)

[tspike]

If you have good domain knowledge and regular 1:1s, remote or not, it should be pretty darn easy to know if your team is being productive. Why is this so difficult?

[ryall]

I completely agree, but then why do these tools exist in the first place?

I think it comes down to a few things. 1. There are managers that do not have good domain knowledge. 2. They don't have regular 1 on 1's, or anything else that good managers do.

Essentially you're assuming that all managers are good, or even competent when most of us have had experience to contradict this.

Which is essentially my conundrum: good managers won't need my service, and bad managers won't even be looking for it