One theory of project staffing is that the ideal number of project people is ZERO.
Don't believe it?
The objective of the project is to deliver something to the business in a timeframe and a budget.
At present, it takes people to do that. But ideally, the number of people would be vanishing small if they were super optimized, super talented, and only touched a process when it needed an initiation or some other budget.
Not buying this?
Well, at the business level, the same applies.
Take a read .... 5 min or so... of this essay which makes the point, and then the counter point for the future of 9-5 jobs generally.
From the essay (actually, the essay ends on an upbeat, so don't take the following as the only worthy content):
The ideal number of employees in any company is zero. If a company could run and make money using no people, then that is exactly what it should do.
Nobody owes anybody a job. Literally the only reason anyone has one is because there was a problem at some point in that business that required a human to do some part of the work. Building on that, if that ever becomes not the case, for a particular person or team or department of human employees, the natural next action is to get rid of them.
and just now —starting in 2023 and 2024, it is actually becoming possible to replace human intelligence tasks with technology.
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