> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?
Because circumstances change and evaluation of projections and optimal employment numbers under them change, and it's never optimal to hire enough people to actually assess that with minute-to-minute updates.
> There's something to be said about spending within your limits and not splurging on the next shiny object.
There is something to be said for hiring and cutting slowly rather than rapidly in response to changing circumstances, and that is that, under the material incentives in a competitive capitalist economy, it is a poor strategy for a corporation.
> Way back when it was called cost control and operating within a budget.
Guess what happens quickly when you are good at operating within a budget and the projections on which the budget is based changed and so the budget changes going forward?
Because circumstances change and evaluation of projections and optimal employment numbers under them change, and it's never optimal to hire enough people to actually assess that with minute-to-minute updates.
> There's something to be said about spending within your limits and not splurging on the next shiny object.
There is something to be said for hiring and cutting slowly rather than rapidly in response to changing circumstances, and that is that, under the material incentives in a competitive capitalist economy, it is a poor strategy for a corporation.
> Way back when it was called cost control and operating within a budget.
Guess what happens quickly when you are good at operating within a budget and the projections on which the budget is based changed and so the budget changes going forward?