The problems with Price's Law

Price's Law: Half of the work gets done by the square root of the number of employees. Making a simple law work for you should be simple, right?

[destroytheboxes]

What were the problems? Never heard any. Other than 2/4 where it doesn’t apply. I didn’t hear you explain a problem.

[Dr.ArielArik]

I believe, it would have better been made into "the Problems of Price's Law" not "with", or a clearer wording.

[Dr.ArielArik]

Was a good one. Thanks. Though I might be biased, because it is what I thought/think too.

[farfartony]

You talk like an engineer. This is a good thing. There should be more. Policy is too important to be left to Politicians.

[Tpb]

Does anyone know the top performer in Steve Jobs company or for that matter the top performer / scientist / engineer in Elon Musks companies? No sir. Business personalities just like corporate careers are over rated. Don't kill yourself with 80 hour weeks. Smell the roses while you are still alive. Life is brief

[ruhaitian]

Let's analyze it in another way. Your brain controls most of your activities, but your arms are equally important.

[davesims]

You got the square root of 1000 wrong in the beginning… If it was 1000 employees roughly a little bit over 30 of them would be doing 50% of the work

[OlivePittsOnDesk]

The square root of 1000 is 32 not 100. These laws are not mathematically exact or even particularly valid, but are warnings to watch out for massive organizations like government where of 2 million employees perhaps 200, 000 are efficient and less than 1 million are needed.