Well, it's a philosophical conundrum. If a business has enough money to hire more people (revenues per employee is proxy). It should do so as long as it can re

Well, it's a philosophical conundrum. If a business has enough money to hire more people (revenues per employee is proxy). It should do so as long as it can recoup the investment. If a business already has thousands of people sitting around doing nothing, should it continue to hire more? There are a near infinite amount of small optimizations and extensions in global businesses that can pay for themselves, so technically it should always hire... but should it really?