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Sink or swim, publish or perish, there seems to be no way to live and let live, as Cole Porter sang. We live directly in the middle of a system, created by economists, in which accountability is the name of the game. All our working hours have to be tagged under given labels, which are evaluated through random benchmarking by seemingly aseptic, objective parameters. Our work outcome must also be accountable both quantitatively and qualitatively to fit to pre-established thresholds of productivity, originality, innovation, etc.

While we all know that attitudes towards performance in work, or life, are varied, leading to unbalanced responsibilities and job share, we also know that kosher ledgering is not the answer. Having said this, it is true that some system to record work performance is needed, and in higher education institutions the quest for measuring has shifted drastically in the last decade. Teaching outcome is …