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If hospitals only employed enough surgeons to ensure they were always in surgery, people would die. Systems need slack to respond to change. A fully utilized q
by geraldwhen 3y ago
If hospitals only employed enough surgeons to ensure they were always in surgery, people would die.
Systems need slack to respond to change. A fully utilized queue quickly leads to infinite backlogs.
- em-bee 3y agoof course, but i didn't mean to remove all the slack, just some of it. you don't need 4x the capacity (OP was talking about working 10 hours out of 40), especially not for IT work where people generally don't die just because your capacity is maxed out.