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Originally Posted by wireframe
Typo. I meant to say 25 percent of the engineering staff. 75 percent have been laid off and the remaining 25 percent are keeping the app running fine.
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Any large organization trends towards inefficiency. Whether government or private, it's just hard to keep thousands of people working productively.
This is especially the case in industries with almost no unemployment (so finding competent staff is hard) or in industries with rapid growth. This was the alberta oil patch during the boom years and is the tech industry now.
I recall a study a client of ours did that found that many of their construction crews actually produced negative output as their 'work' would regularly need to be redone.