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by willcipriano 1003 days ago
From the Havard Business Review:

> Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

> More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before. Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP.

https://hbr.org/2016/09/excess-management-is-costing-the-us-...

1 comments

Bullshit jobs continue to grow, especially as productivity increases. I can see the gap widening quickly as more and more automation comes from the AI progress boom.