Company accidentally increased productivity by laying off 20% middle management

Posted by thunderbong on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:14AM
from the theolognion.com dept.

https://www.theolognion.com/p/company-accidentally-increased-dev-productivity-3x-by-laying-off-20-of-middle-management

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Re:Company accidentally increased productivity by laying off... by flanked-evergl on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:28AM (#39561559)

This almost hits too close to home to be funny. Most middle management I have encountered would crawl over broken glass to avoid doing something productive.

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Re:Company accidentally increased productivity by laying off... by invitrom on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:29AM (#39561566)

This reads like a fake ai created story

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Re:Company accidentally increased productivity by laying off... by bell-cot on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:40AM (#39561644)

If you're not familiar, the style definitely predates "AI" -

https://www.theonion.com/

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Re:Company accidentally increased productivity by laying off... by ydlr on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:41AM (#39561658)

They aren't trying to hide it. The very first word in the story is "Fagooglix."

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Re:Company accidentally increased productivity by laying off... by bell-cot on Friday March 01, 2024 @08:42AM (#39561659)

How does this effect scale? Could they 10X their original productivity by laying off an additional 22.222% of their original middle management? ( since 3 x 3.333 = 10 )

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