Enigin Reveal Highly-Paid But Useless Jobs I
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Corporations often hire people to do jobs that don’t really need doing. Sometimes it’s because an executive is building an empire. Sometimes it’s the result of random corporate confusion.
Most of the time, these useless jobs pop up at the bottom of the food chain. However, some are executive positions that are both highly-paid and exist in almost every large firm - even though they’re not really accomplishing anything.
Over the next few posts is a list of the top 5 time-wasting and useless (but big money) corporate jobs. You may argue about the selection, of course, especially if your job is on my list:
Useless Job 1: Chief Information Officer
The Role: Information technology is supposedly so important that a separate executive is need to formulate strategic goals for an organization, and manage the implementation of useful technology to “increase information accessibility and integrated systems management.”
- Typically Reports To: The CEO, CFO, or COO
Why It’s Useless: The CIO concept dates back to the days of the mainframe data center, where the computer power for a company could be centralized in order to reduce cost. However, centralized IT bureaucracies always were notoriously lame at serving their “customers”, so even back then, department heads started purchasing minicomputers and then personal computers, just to get away from the limitations of central control. Today, there’s a massive migration to simply buying computer power over the web (i.e. “cloud computing”), which reduces the role of corporate computing to essentially maintaining a network — hardly something that requires vast strategic skills. - Proof of Uselessness: Check out the 10K reports for Microsoft, Oracle and IBM on the SEC’s Edgar database.
Those reports have lists of key executives, like CEO, CFO, and down to smaller roles like senior VPs, etc. Despite that fact that these firms work closely with the IT groups inside thousands of corporations, none of those three companies lists a CIO as a key player in their own firm. That tells you everything you need to know.
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