Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid

2020-09-04 16:53

In essence makework alows a senior administrator to gain status by head count and keep those excesses hidden from others.

Interestingly makework like peek demand is a headcount ratchet, which is why some estimate that around one third of the working population is performing makework.

Almost entirely makework is hidden away in administration work, though it can also be disguised as low grade creative work in non-core activities.

Then some idiot often with their own makework scheme starts using the collated data and thus the first makework becomes a requirment -thus embedded- of the second makework and so it grows like weeds in a vegetable patch but harder to "Weed out".

Thus a switch from "Office working" to "Home working" will eradicte much of the current makework as well as the need for office space and the personnel required to maintain it.

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