Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

"Google has a highly developed internal analytics team that constantly measures all employees’ productivity—and the level of productivity that teams are expected to deliver assumes that employees are working on their primary responsibilities 100% of the time."

I know that it is a large company and control is required to manage everything, but this sounds depressing. I'm glad I work in a tiny company and even smaller team.

This description may lead you to imagine software counting how many lines someone changes or how many hours of the day someone is typing. That would be pretty depressing, but I don't think Google does that.

Their performance measurements are much more based off asking other engineers and colleagues what they think of your work.