Productivity inertia is a thing. It's common for things to keep rolling in the short term after a big layoff. Over time, though, the little things that so many

Productivity inertia is a thing. It's common for things to keep rolling in the short term after a big layoff. Over time, though, the little things that so many faceless now-gone people were dutifully keeping going the whole time start to degrade and the cracks get bigger. It's not like these people were all working line jobs where there's an obvious productivity falloff like a now-unmanned conveyer dumping product on the floor.