The article doesn’t say anything about productivity or targets. They got as much done as someone who manually wiggles the mouse while thinking instead of going for a walk while thinking.
Notice how this doesn’t even have anything to do with productivity. These people were fired purely for having the gall to not respect office hours regardless of the completion of tasks.
I know a joke about UDP.
I know a joke about TCP too.
Did you get it?
Yeah. That’s the problem. It doesn’t seem to be that they didn’t do the work, it’s that they did other stuff too.