[lpapez]

Less headcount usually means faster pace - less lines of comminication, less red tape etc.

Or at least that's what many C-level people believe to be true. "We need to move like a startup" is a common mantra repeated by executives, even megacorps like Amazon.

I guess it's true to some degree though, anecdotally as an IC at a tech company, I feel like I could move a lot faster if some people around me removed and replaced by an automation instead.

[spwa4]

But that's not the claim being made. It's about only slightly lowering output or even reducing output for a much larger reduction in spending.

What they're doing is "doing less with less", as they say.