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by andsoitis 884 days ago
> Why is it that so many companies seems to regularly make the same mistake of over-hiring and then "needing" to downsize?

Perhaps the issue is with the assumption that it is a mistake. Or rather, that it is the kind of mistake that is readily foreseeable or a mistake where incentives didn’t force you “over hire”.

When there’s rapid growth the be had, why would you not staff up lest you lose share.