Records of income and expenditures are kept. Records of time utilization and work productivity are kept. When and if there is a need to determine who was responsible for something, who knew what and when they knew it, etc., these records can and will be accessed. The same qualities of organizations that are the source of their strength can also be the source of their problems, however. Bureaucratic alienation is a big problem for most of the same reasons that Marx identified 150 years ago.
Bureaucracies can be both inhumane and dehumanizing.
Work rules are sometimes designed in such a way as to fail to account for the real needs of employees in terms of time, other parts of their lives, etc. In some bureaucratic organizations, especially government agencies, career ladders are too short, giving employees little opportunity for advancement. Rationality and efficiency are themselves often dehumanizing. Bureaucratic ritualism is also a big problem. Robert Merton first identified this problem and applied the term to organizational preoccupation with its rules and regulations to the point that managers keep the organization from meeting its goals.