Comment by rxm233
8 days ago
It’s hard to evaluate or even define “fake” work from any kind of data-driven perspective since you can always take the stance that it accomplishes some unobservable goal and is therefore done for a good reason. I think a lot of people don’t believe it exists for this reason, but as basically anyone that’s worked a corporate middle manager job knows, it definitely does it exist.
Exactly. Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier, because it's dead on. there's an old paper from a professor that Harvard gave tenure to before realizing that he was an actual communist lmao titled "What do bosses do?" (https://elearning.unite.it/pluginfile.php/356459/mod_resourc...) Spoiler: not much.
There's lots of real invisible work that isn't measured for actual good reasons. But 100-1000x that work is just bullshit and is distributed throughout middle management. I think you're right. I think AI is gonna pull that out in weird ways, exposing it in one place, amplifying it in another.