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> Every place I've worked that had more than 50 staff, 90% of the productive work was done by 10% of the staff. That’s my feeling too. But I’m not 100% sure th
by bjornsing 4y ago
> Every place I've worked that had more than 50 staff, 90% of the productive work was done by 10% of the staff.
That’s my feeling too. But I’m not 100% sure that feeling aligns perfectly with “reality”. We humans have blind spots, and it may be that some of the 80% actually do very important stuff that I happen to be blind to.
- krstf13 4y agoThat’s very likely. In a past life I’ve done a bunch of auditing for m and a, apart the obvious nepotistic paid internships more often than not people thought to be unproductive were really important to the organisation. Think about payroll, legal and the likes. They’re not necessarily productive in terms of the main product, but they help reduce the legal risk for the company and insure that people in the ‘productive departments’ may stay productive. As software developers we tend to only see the number of features/fixes someone pushes to the product as the main metric of productivity, however there’s way more to running a largish company.