Try to have the company run for a week without the janitor and 1 week without the CEO, and everybody would tell you who’s doing the most important job.
Know you meant this as rhetorical, but I can speak from my own experience.
Having had our janitor go on leave for a week without replacement, I can sure tell you I missed them by the end of the week.
Meanwhile in an old SME job, our CEO left for an entire fortnight to some corporate BS, and genuinely the only tell was the managers being more friendly and relaxed.
Janitor works quietly in the background making the world around them slightly better whilst getting paid about as little as legally possible.
CEOs loudly ruin the world around them whilst making more than 100x what the janitor makes (and that’s just their salary)
I certainly know who I’d want rid of.
Try to have the company run for a week without the janitor and 1 week without the CEO, and everybody would tell you who’s doing the most important job.
Know you meant this as rhetorical, but I can speak from my own experience.
Having had our janitor go on leave for a week without replacement, I can sure tell you I missed them by the end of the week.
Meanwhile in an old SME job, our CEO left for an entire fortnight to some corporate BS, and genuinely the only tell was the managers being more friendly and relaxed.
It’d be fun to actually have a study to point to. Feels like the type of thing people cloud try.
I feel like 100x is way way lowballing that CEO.
100x would require some sort of hypercommunist wage equality regulation