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Don't Be Frupid
Frupidity is stupid frugality that wrecks engineering teams. Misguided cost-cutting kills productivity, morale, and innovation. You can fight it.
Enter frupidity, or stupid frugality – the obsessive drive to save money in ways that ultimately cost far more in lost productivity, morale, and sanity. Picture a bland office park in the outer ring of a mid-sized city, where the air is thick with the dull hum of fluorescent lights and motivational posters. What they can’t see is that forcing employees to take three-hour public transit journeys leads to exhaustion, frustration, and bad decision-making that costs thousands in lost productivity.
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