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Local to Microsoft here. Worked there a few decades ago. Every indication I get from people who work there today tells me that they could bleed off 10,000 emplo
by tomcam 4y ago
Local to Microsoft here. Worked there a few decades ago. Every indication I get from people who work there today tells me that they could bleed off 10,000 employees and if it were the right 10,000, the company would be better off afterwards.
- baq 4y agoTrue in every megacorp.
- maest 4y agoReminds me of John Wanamaker's quip re marketing: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half."
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>if it were the right 10,000, the company would be better off afterwards Doesn't this apply to literally every big-corp? The big-corp I left had so many people doing nothing, it was insane. It was also crazy and sad that those people doing nothing were ironically by far the better paid ones, fact confirmed by the payroll lady.
- groby_b 4y agoIf you have a "payroll lady", you're not working at a big-corp.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago"One of the payroll ladies" for correction. Also, working for a small office of a big corp still counts as working for a big corp. Not every location of a big-corp has thousands of workers.
- kumarvvr 4y agoOnce you reach a certain size, I guess this is true everywhere. About 2 to 3% of employees in any org. will be slacking.
- taspeotis 4y agoYes yes, the No Output Division: > I believe 1/2 of these people could be let go from DEC today and our productivity would take a sharp rise. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/dec.bell.no_output_division_C-I_TF;productivity_review.1982.102630376.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/dec.b...