Ideally business ownership is the workaround. If you own the business, then you don't need to expend time and energy proving to the owner (or his subordinate's subordinate), that you did the work.
You still need to show the customer or they won't pay the invoice; but they're less interested in seeing you busy, and more interested in the deliverable they're paying you for.
I expect that's the reason there was a trend a while ago for different departments in a business to actually buy and sell from each other, either using dollars or some internal token. I wonder if that's worth revisiting now that we have crypto.
Precisely! They are not paying you to do your work, they are paying you to solve their problem. They don't care about utilization rates.
This is something I have thought a little about and think you are onto something. Crypto is helping to redefine value, and the way we trade it. I think that many organizations are actually working more in a decentralized way through their departments, and their "processes" are the "rules of the blockchain" they have to adhere to - but otherwise, they are acting independently.