Smalll Businesses

As someone who has worked for both small and large tech companies, I would actually argue that the opposite is true.Smaller companies are far more nimble and have faster turnaround time for product to market. Larger companies generally invoke large amounts of bureaucracy in their day to day activities. Additionally, people have more specialized roles in larger companies while smaller ones can distribute the workload to people who are more the 'jack of all trades' type individuals.I guess one can argue that duplication of efforts in several smaller business can appear as though their is 'inefficiency'. If two companies merge for example, there is usually attrition in the HR orgs for example as some workers jobs become redundant. Although I would state that isn't really an example of inefficiency; it is more one of cost consolidation.

Kind of reminds me of the Vogons from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame.Incidentally, I was at a company once where, I kid you not, they held a large meeting with senior leaders to discuss why there were so many meetings going on. Now THAT'S inflation!