>Increasing productivity never lays people off Once, I worked for a medical claims company. We had a dozen people who just worked on processing claims. I wro

>Increasing productivity never lays people off Once, I worked for a medical claims company. We had a dozen people who just worked on processing claims. I wrote some software that cut the claim processing time in half. Instead of finding new work for the claims processors, they literally laid off half of them. I have never felt worse, as a software developer than I did that day. Management was so short sighted at that company.