What’s that one ‘unwritten KPI’ in every workplace that nobody talks about, but secretly affects how people are judged?

Is it staying online late? where even if you’ve finished your tasks, logging out fast makes you look less committed? Or closing Jira Stories just by splitting tasks into tiny chunks so the board looks busy, output looks high, but no real outcome moves forward?

Drop a story — when did output-over-outcome culture hit you the hardest?