'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by jcdavis on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:42PM (#32415803)

IANAL, but have family & friends in biglaw

> Biglaw attorneys routinely bill 2200 hours a year in 6 minute increments.

A surprising portion of that work is random menial stuff, they don't actually end up doing 40hr/week of mentally demanding work.

> Plus, they do this into their 50’s.

The ones that survive to make partner do. But its well-known that BigLaw absolutely burns through associates. Very few BigLaw associates make it past 35, most eventually leave for saner pastures of corporate counsel/government/etc jobs.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by kongolongo on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:05PM (#32416936)

This analogy is interesting do you think there are some lawyers that consider themselves 10xlawyers haha. It make sense that a lot of it would be similar to documentation and meetings and various agile ceremonies and not just 2200 hours of straight legal argumentation and writing.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by tiahura on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:41PM (#32417378)

Biglaw clients aren’t suckers. They don’t pay $800/hr for agile ceremonies. They go over their bills with a fine tooth comb and have ML systems to detect padding.

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