Bureaucracy is everywhere, not only in big companies. Back when I worked in research, I was in a small (at most 100 people) research institute in Germany; and

Bureaucracy is everywhere, not only in big companies. Back when I worked in research, I was in a small (at most 100 people) research institute in Germany; and I was working in a EU project. Each month, I had to log what I did every hour in 3 different, independent and non-compatible (i.e., it was hard for me to automate the process... and believe me, I tried) places: 1. An excel sheet required by the European Union office in charge of overseeing the project: Log not only the time you spent in the project (doing what for each hour? wp1, wp2, etc.; or admin) but also hours completely unrelated to the project (teaching, other projects, etc). 2. A stupid program called Profiskal. One of those programs made in Java which are made with the feet. 3. Some internal web platform.