> If you meet your goals early and announce that, you just get more work. Not only that, the larger the company you work for, the more likely the more people w

> If you meet your goals early and announce that, you just get more work. Not only that, the larger the company you work for, the more likely the more people will be involved in your project. That leads to all sorts of inefficiencies. If you finish early, you may still need to wait on someone else before your next task. So the work you pick up will often just be busywork anyway, since you can’t do the important work until you’re unblocked. The incentives for working harder or faster are so decoupled from actual results in a large company (i.e. we shipped something and made X more dollars which means Y more dollars for me) that gaming the system and “performing” is the only real meaning you can derive from your actions.