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They are proposing that the amount of work on a worker's plate at any one point in time should be reduced so they aren't always stressing about their backlog. T
by DangitBobby 5y ago
They are proposing that the amount of work on a worker's plate at any one point in time should be reduced so they aren't always stressing about their backlog. They are not proposing that workers have less to do overall (otherwise, their claim of "increased productivity" is incoherent). The action from management would then be to organize the queuing and distribution of tasks and projects to shield workers from the administrative burden of recording an prioritizing it as it's launched at them via email or Slack. This is pretty basic work that I expect a manager to do.
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- djur 5y agoManagers are generally pretty terrible at doing that without significant input from their reports, though. So you end up with small teams that managers can effectively do that work for... but then you end up with armies of lower-level managers who must then be managed by legions of mid-level managers, and so on. Controlling the flow of work to "producers" has a high organizational cost in bureaucracy.] IMO the problem isn't "a lot of responsibilities", it's "a lot of things to worry about without the autonomy/authority necessary to resolve those worries". Big orgs tend to have more to worry about while also reducing autonomy and concentrating authority.