[watwut]

4 paragraph essay wont solve issue with Peter having better computer. Competitive person will write it and make up a reasons.

If you are awarding computers based on 3 paragraph essays, you are having horribly inefficient process that rewards creative writing rather then work.

Which is why none of it happen in real companies, unless they are someones startup expected to fail anyway.

[nemomarx]

I can say when I wanted to move my desk from one place to another I had to write up the "business justification" (I was already working from both offices on different days and still am, it was a change on paper)

so I'm sure there's large corps that do this for everything. probably ones where you're not asking your manager, but asking finance or IT for everything