You need to go one step further and ask yourself why there are these degrees of separation if they're harmful to productivity? The answer lies in the communicat

You need to go one step further and ask yourself why there are these degrees of separation if they're harmful to productivity? The answer lies in the communication overhead as someone else said, combined with Dunbar's number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number