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Eliminating slack is almost inherently anti-autonomy, though. It is management saying they think they know everything that needs to be done, and especially what doesn't.

Except they don't and can't know this. And they don't want to make all of the decisions that they are preventing others from making, either. So everyone is busy, and yet critical work doesn't get done.

Workers all know this, and either burn out or check out.