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by 2143 1564 days ago
In support of delegation:

(This was the philosophy at a Scandinavian firm I worked at).

A more-experienced employee might want to delegate some of their less important tasks to less-experienced people, so that the former can focus on more important higher-value tasks.

If a more-experienced employee with more pay is doing a task that can be done satisfactorily by a less-experienced employee with lesser pay, that means the organization is spending more than it should to get that task done.

Of course, there are some assumptions here:

* The less-experienced is able to do the work with quality.

* The less-experienced wouldn't take an insanely longer time up complete the task than the more-experienced senior.

(Now please don't start a war here saying that everybody should have identical pay and there must not be any hierarchy whatsoever. It's beyond my control.)