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Wayfair’s CEO has an end-of-year message for employees of the online furniture company: Don’t shy away from doing more work and blending your work with your life.
“Winning requires hard work. I believe that most of us, being ambitious individuals, find fulfillment in the joy of seeing our efforts materialize into tangible results,” CEO Niraj Shah said in a note to employees earlier this month celebrating the company’s recent success, and which a company spokesperson confirmed to CNN. “Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from. There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.”
Working hard is the very opposite of Efficiency - the object is to produce more in less time, not spent more time to achieve just the baseline results.
In my experience, the places were you have to “work hard” (invariably without extra pay for it) are the ones where either middle management is shit and you’re working extra to make up for day-to-day their incompetence and/or high level management is shit (and their profitability “strategy” is to the short-term of reducing costs by cutting manpower well below what is appropriate for the operation, rather than process improvement, capital and training investmentment to improve efficiency) and you’re working extra to make up for their incompetence.
Either way, it’s the worst paid people sacrificing themselves to make up for the incompetence of better paid ones.
Anybody with in demand skills in such a company should GTFO as you really can’t correct structural problems due to incompetence of the higher-ups and arent paid to make them your problem.