'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
As a consultant, I come around a bit.<p>I have seen many companies with very poor productivity, and in zero of those cases was it laziness of the employees. In fact they usually would have loved to be more productive. Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight.<p>But as companies grow they install more and more rules and regulations that end up making sure nothing ever gets done. It is not unusual to meet &quot;developers&quot; whose company calendar is 80% filled with meetings. Well no wonder they don&#x27;t get anything done!<p>Also remember that this is only half the problem. The other half is that agile makes you iterate through pseudo productivity before you actually understood the problem, accumulating cruft that you need to maintain and extend as you go on. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if of the productivity that is left, more than half gets wasted on crufty software structures and writing code before you understood the problem.<p>And then nobody wants to throw code away that turned out to be not what we need. Wasting yet more productivity on working around bad decisions from before we knew what we are actually building.