All of this smacks of Taylorism, treating people like machines. When you develop teams there is a strong social element to the formation and maintenance of groups of people. This article totally leans towards an AI (Oh of course we still need a person or 2). I see things like this and have to assume the writer never managed people in their life.

"Yes boss, I'll go that extra mile because after that motivation meeting we just had, I'm like...bzzz, clickity, click, click."