Corporate Culture and Career Advancement
16 min
Bus Factor = 1: How One Woman in Accounting Controls Billions
In one company, I saw a manager manually processing bills worth billions. She copied from PDF to Excel, cross-checked with another file, and applied formulas that only she understood. Bus Factor = 1. If she falls ill, the company's revenue stream will come to a halt. This is not a bug, it's a feature of the corporate world.