How is it not efficient?

In certain types of company, it's workers without management responsibilities who do the work that brings in the money.

Think of a delivery company, for example, where drivers make deliveries, which is what the company gets paid for. Too many managers - AKA too few employees per manager - will sink the company, because managers draw a salary but don't make deliveries.

Of course, this analysis might not work as well for a company like Google. I'm pretty sure I can publish an ad without any human intervention on Google's end, so maybe they have no equivalent to the drivers, making the ratio incalculable.

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n1b0m 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess it depends on what other responsibilities the manager has. If a manager has too little to do, they might over-manage their small team, constantly checking in on their work, which is inefficient and demoralising.

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Etheryte 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If managers oversee 0-2 people in a company, that means it's roughly just one person managing one person managing one etc.

	▲	LudwigNagasena 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Imagine you have a cohesive system that has 10 services, each service requires 1-3 people. The head of the system can assign 10 tech leads responsible for the overall quality of the services or they may have over 20 direct reports, most of whom have nothing of interest to report to the higher-up.