move to exit,” as the company prepared for its first mass firing in its 21-year history. “Studies have shown that while a focus on hard metrics can improve productivity in the short term, in the long term, you risk employee churn or worse, burnout, which will negatively hit the bottom line in the long run,” says Jen Montague, vice president of growth for Danish software startup Onomondo. ”But with economic pressures building, many companies are likely to push more retrograde measures of productivity and try to shorten the leash for employees, whether by measuring more or bringing them back to the office