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> I'm convinced that most office work exists for social reasons The powers that be are not competent/powerful enough to engineer a society-wide conspiracy like
by ido 1y ago
> I'm convinced that most office work exists for social reasons
The powers that be are not competent/powerful enough to engineer a society-wide conspiracy like that.
A lot of waste (especially in big organizations, and the bigger the organization the more capacity for waste) happens, and the more the income is detached from production (e.g. governments get tax revenue regardless of how well they spend it) the less people care about efficiency.
But for the most part people get hired because somebody thought that makes business sense to do so.
- dlcarrier 1y agoI think it's the opposite. The powers that be are not competent/powerful enough to engineer a company that prioritizes productivity over relationships. It's human nature to prioritize relationships over everything else, and it would take a lot of micromanaging to do otherwise, except that micromanaging itself is susceptible to human nature, so managers who try end up micromanaging relationships, not productive work.