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Re:A pilot scheme to trail the four-day workweek in Britain ... by kqr on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:11AM (#34878692)
Just as bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy, so does management.

There is a good way to do big management, but what usually happens is managers find themselves with time to spare and invent activities which do not directly add value, but eventually snowball into formidable tasks requiring more management.

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Re:A pilot scheme to trail the four-day workweek in Britain ... by parineum on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:18AM (#34878732)
That's true for government because they have no competition. In the corporate world, excessive bloat leads to stifled innovation and eventual irrelevance then bankruptcy.

Sears could have been Amazon.

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Re:A pilot scheme to trail the four-day workweek in Britain ... by kqr on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:22AM (#34878768)
Sure, but that happens on the timescale of years or decades. Managers and executives work in quarters -- at best!
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Re:A pilot scheme to trail the four-day workweek in Britain ... by orwin on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:46AM (#34878985)
It's true for big companies too. Not for those in competitive environments, but with the mergers of the last 25 years, those are more and more rare.
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