>>8413777and you underestimate the amount of time it takes to get anything done in those industries. Sure, Apple needs the shiny new product by Q3, but defense contractors have 10 years to build shit, and out of those 12 years, they spend 14 dicking around designing it.
I work at some rocket company and my work is something like 60% meeting with people who ask me to do stuff, 10% doing the stuff and 30% writing boring reports. Last project was some python script to read data in an XML file. Took 2 whole months : half a day of programming and the rest writing emails.
They've done a study at some point, the more employees you get the more they'll waste time on useless shit, that peaks at 30% of your workforce being next to useless