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> how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need? Not sure if you are serious or not, but understanding the output of knowledge worker
by aprilthird2021 2y ago
> how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?
Not sure if you are serious or not, but understanding the output of knowledge workers is a famously difficult task.
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago>understanding the output of knowledge workers is a famously difficult task That's why large companies don't look at individual worker output (performance reviews are mostly performative and subjective) and just look at stock prices and profits. If "line goes up", it means workers as a whole must be doing a good job , even if individually many might not be good at their jobs, but as long as line goes up, nobody cares to look too deep into the hows and whys. If line stops going up, then they start laying them off more or less randomly or forcing RTO, or such things regardless of individual performance.
- jumping_frog 2y agoI have a offtopic but related question. Why are our taxes still calculated in stepwise bracket manner. Why not a smooth curve? We have the mathematical and technical knowhow to implement it. Coming back to the Dropbox layoffs, why was this decision a drastic stepwise reduction. Not a smooth curve over a period of say 1 year.