Work Allocation Quotes

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

I've run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don't get away. But hiring people when you don't have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.

The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.