Take deutsche bank as an example. The number of front office employees in deutsche bank’s investment banking division has fallen 12 percent from pre-crisis levels, while net revenue per employee has increased 20 percent. That sounds like a well-managed company, doesn’t it? Yet deutsche bank employees probably do feel they’re working harder. They are. What would you think of a company if the story instead was, “net revenue per employee has fallen 20 percent, but employees feel much less stressed at work”? we don’t live in a world where companies have the luxury of doing less with more.