> That cannot be true. > I know, it's Meta, but they can't be that blind. You've not actually seen the kinds of decisions corporations execute on in the inter

> That cannot be true. > I know, it's Meta, but they can't be that blind. You've not actually seen the kinds of decisions corporations execute on in the interests of shareholder value, have you? Tech companies are better at using data to drive their decisions than non-tech companies; they are no better at using data -sensibly-. If this actually happens (it's Blind), with the policy listed (it's Blind), the rationale is quite easy to explain - clearly, the one whose productivity didn't suffer -fired the right people-. The one whose productivity suffered -fired the wrong people-. The option you present, that some teams are actually sufficiently lean already, runs against the broad generality the CEO gave of "too many employees, but few work", ergo it can't be true.