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Re:On the Law of Diminishing Specialization by Retric on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:30PM (#18172199)
Picture a meeting where 6 people making 100+k are looking for a whiteboard pens that works/eraser/ etc * 5 meetings a day.

Paying somone minimum wage to just keep that from happening across say 15 conference rooms is a likely a net win even if they did nothing else. The issue is this is an invisible cost where cutting that person looks like real savings.

We have this idea that everyone needs to be actively working all day when there is such a huge discrepancy in pay scales that it’s not that important.

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Re:On the Law of Diminishing Specialization by abakker on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:29PM (#18172696)
This is startlingly real. Or, from my own day today, 8 people that earn 100K plus/year on a call where half of them never speak. How much did that call cost?
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Re:On the Law of Diminishing Specialization by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:02PM (#18180195)
Maybe businesses need to start treating their internal infrastructure as a real thing? There should be a diagram on some exec dashboard somewhere, saying in orange "Meeting rooms - health: 60%" (and similar things for all other trivial inconveniences). Maybe that'd prompt them to allocate some funding to fix the problem.
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