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by chucksmash
2437 days ago
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> These companies main priority is not efficiency and productivity. Still with you here... > They have a political and social role: hire as many people as possible. You lose me here. Most companies are out to make as much money as possible now or in the near future. I spent the first three years of my career in QA at a total BS Jobs company (120k+ employees, lots of government contract and enterprise software work). So many people coasted, nothing ever really got done, etc. Even in a totally dysfunctional organization like that, hiring was either about backfilling attrition losses or hiring people that were expected to directly or indirectly contribute to revenue growth. Never attribute to a vast socio-political conspiracy that which can be explained by the emergent incompetence of a large organization. |
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The company in the abstract, sure. Not managers and VPs and such. Not even the C-suite, necessarily, or at least they likely have other concerns in addition to just the company making money. It's the principal agent problem plus the management version of résumé-driven-development, basically.