They are sterile within the organization of a corporate superorganism. They cannot create more employees. The desire to obtain more employees for the superorgan

They are sterile within the organization of a corporate superorganism. They cannot create more employees. The desire to obtain more employees for the superorganism is derived from a complex set of signals that propagates throughout the organization. Edit: Also unless employees are having sex and making the babies sort mail or fight off corporate raiders then the metaphorical aspects still hold.