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Once the boss can do this, he would just threaten to fire the unproductive employee. That generally works better than what you're proposing because it doesn't require turning employees into cyborg slaves. (The hard part is actually measuring productivity when the employee is doing something that isn't easily quantified.)
You're thinking about how things are today, not how they might be in a decade of further capitalist degradation. What if there are no others to hire to replace your unproductive employee?
If something like what I described were to ever happen, it would not be a single company operating in a "normal" market full of others not using slaves. Just like slavery in the American South, it becomes the economy. We have a history of enslaving others, why wouldn't those willing to enslave use a technology that makes their job easier and far more secure?