To check, is high vs low absorbency the same as claiming that different careers have different rates of diminishing marginal returns?
Toy example: we might think that in career A, the first person doing it brings 1000 units of value, but each additional person bring 10 fewer units of value. However, for career B, the first person doing it brings 200 units of value, but each additional person brings 1 less unit.
In this case, once you’ve got 80 people doing A, the marginal value of the 81th would be 190, so you’d then want to switch to having people do B. Career B we might call ‘higher absorbency’, but whether you want to push people to A or B depends on how many people you have.
To check, is high vs low absorbency the same as claiming that different careers have different rates of diminishing marginal returns?
Toy example: we might think that in career A, the first person doing it brings 1000 units of value, but each additional person bring 10 fewer units of value. However, for career B, the first person doing it brings 200 units of value, but each additional person brings 1 less unit.
In this case, once you’ve got 80 people doing A, the marginal value of the 81th would be 190, so you’d then want to switch to having people do B. Career B we might call ‘higher absorbency’, but whether you want to push people to A or B depends on how many people you have.