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I think the big one that no one mentions is management. A company with 100,000 employees, and a reporting span of 10 people then you have 11,111 managers - and as they tend to get paid more upwards of 25-30% of the salary.

And what do they do? Administration and process? Easily automatable. Hiring and firing (teams do this better), "magically know what to do in uncertain times" (guess my views). A lot of this can be replaced with high trust, open environments and "team empowerment"

But when do turkeys vote for Xmas?

This comes from (iirr) Gary Hamel (https://hbr.org/2011/11/fire-all-the-managers)




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