One thing that is baffling to me is that these companies can fire 10% of their workforce and they just keep on chugging without a hitch. A company I used to wo

One thing that is baffling to me is that these companies can fire 10% of their workforce and they just keep on chugging without a hitch. A company I used to work for set up a team to develop a new product for a new market. After 3 years they were still unprofitable, the product was shut down and the entire team was fired. This obviously had no direct effect on the companies overall productivity. Was that team doing a "bullshit job"? If you fire the team doing R&D on the next generation of one of your products or the team working on launching your company into an entirely new market or the team the works on internal tooling or some of the people managing key account relationships with certain customers or suppliers or many other similar jobs then the company can absolutely keep going without a hitch, for a while.