Author seems to be confusing established companies that hold near monopolies as highly functioning. It is difficult to to learn from large US tech companies. At Google not breaking the webpage might be a good day of work, but in my field not shipping a prototype etc will end our company.
I would be skeptical of productivity statistics from a company in decline.
Excellent point. I would have a hard time naming anything Google has produced lately that has seemed like a big step forward to me. And with Facebook, a lot of their "productivity" seems to be wasteful (like the metaverse stuff) or actively harmful.
Author seems to be confusing established companies that hold near monopolies as highly functioning. It is difficult to to learn from large US tech companies. At Google not breaking the webpage might be a good day of work, but in my field not shipping a prototype etc will end our company.
I would be skeptical of productivity statistics from a company in decline.