3 ms·
> >In Government, headcount is a (political, organization, etc.) benefit. >> Can be said for the private sector as well. Unless you think the private sector is
by anamax 15y ago
> >In Government, headcount is a (political, organization, etc.) benefit.
>> Can be said for the private sector as well. Unless you think the private sector is growth averse.
Huh? Employees aren't growth. Employees may be necessary to accomplish/support growth, but that's very different. The difference is that a biz will happily take growth with no employees and will try to avoid employees with no growth.
- Klinky 15y agoEmployees are often a sign of growth, though not always. A large employee count often means the company has experienced significant growth and is relatively stable. Even a small company, hiring your first employee means you're probably experiencing growth or see the opportunity for it. Of course judging a company based only on it's headcount is silly, just like judging that the government must be wasteful and inefficient because of it's headcount.
- _delirium 15y agoHeadcounts are a common metric of importance in business, though not the only one. Especially for managers, the phrase "grew the organization from [x] to [y]" is often denominated in units of employees (take a look at google hits for "grew the organization from"). So managers typically have an incentive to increase headcount.
- anamax 15y ago> Headcounts are a common metric of importance in business Unless you're claiming that everything import is growth....