"If your manager knows what you're doing all the time, you're not doing your job, and he's not doing his."

Hew Evans, Sony HR Director - Asia

I know, I've been merely pointing at Tony Schwartz's stuff lately, and again I found this quote in another great HBR article "Reward Value, Not Face Time" by Tony Schwartz.

Are you facing "presenteeism" in your company? Are people at work, but hardly working?
Might be time to leave as productivity suffers and workplace climate is impacted as managers try old-fashioned solutions such as checking people's desks for their presence.
This can start a death spiral and impact the bottom line.