efficiency expert
Productivity improvement specialist
An efficiency expert is someone who analyzes business operations to identify waste and improve productivity.
The term dates to early 20th-century scientific management movements but now often carries a slightly ominous tone—efficiency experts are brought in before layoffs: The company hired an efficiency expert, and within months half the department was gone.
- consultantProfessional advice provider
- number cruncherFinancial data analyst
- stopwatchInterval timing device
- streamlineRemove unnecessary elements
- productivityOutput relative to input
optimization · workflow · best practices · clipboard · lean · downsizing · pink slip · metrics · analysis · audit · ruthless · corporate · white collar · suit · reorganization · benchmarking · spreadsheet · overhead
- optimizeralgorithm, scheduler, route planner, tuner, calibrator
- Industrial Engineersergonomist
- organizersdesk organizer, drawer organizer, closet organizer, desk organizers, drawer organizers
- consultantsconsultant, management consultant, strategy consultant, financial consultant, HR consultant
- strategy enthusiastchess player, board gamer, tactician, planner, chess master
efficiency expertmanual laborer
Worker using physical effort
grunt · hourly worker · factory hand · middle manager · bureaucrat
efficiency expertwastrel
Reckless spender, idle person
squanderer · bungler · spendthrift · time-waster · bumbler
efficiency expertbureaucrat
Government administrative official
paper pusher · pencil pusher · clock watcher · obstructionist · middle manager
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