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> The truth is that a majority of tech companies don't need 50%+ of their employees. Then why are they hired? It can’t be image alone
by pipeline_peak 4y ago
> The truth is that a majority of tech companies don't need 50%+ of their employees.
Then why are they hired? It can’t be image alone
- confounded 4y agoBecause managers are evaluated on their ability to grow teams and increase their scope. Organizations intrinsically "want" to hire. What's unusual about the last 20 years is that there's been so much available capital to fund tech companies doing just that.
- dominotw 4y agoThere is constant pressure from upwards to "increase scope" and hire more people.
- legalcorrection 4y agoThe bureaucracy expands until external factors force it to stop or contract. Google Search and Ads are a small percent of the company but nearly all the revenue. It’s not hard to see how that can lead to runaway bureaucracy.
- papito 4y agoGrowing your office plankton messages to investors that "we are growing, give us more money".
- miked85 4y agoThe same reason a product is never finished and there is a never-ending churn of "features" nobody wants or needs.