Everyone was told to see if they can find cost savings. This just wasn't one though in the bigger picture and even after being told it wasn't one, even by their

Everyone was told to see if they can find cost savings. This just wasn't one though in the bigger picture and even after being told it wasn't one, even by their line manager and separately the CTO, they pursued it over and over. I don't believe anyone else was directly involved further up the food chain on their side. All it needed was for the question to be asked on the company's internal board and listen to the answer. Even trying it once or twice and I'd probably have forgotten about it in short order. This went on for a couple of years though!