Ashish KothariMake flourishing your competitive edge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOLloOd9pw

29 Jul 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled with a URL link, containing a monologue or talk discussing the economic impact of underutilizing human capital in high-income digital industries, emphasizing the significant loss in value per employee and urging leaders to address this inefficiency. The speaker is a single individual presenting an argument or analysis on workforce productivity and asset utilization.

If you are in a high income country like the US and let's say you're in a digital industry, let's say you do software as a service. If the average annual pay in that is about 80,000, the total economic value lost per employee is about 14 to $44,000. Think about that, friends. That's close to 20 to 50% of value from your human capital that you're leaving on the table. That's massive. That's something that every person should take to their leadership team, or if you're a leader, should look into that. Will you accept your physical assets running at that level of efficiency? Imagine if your data centers, your fleets, your machines, your equipment ran at 12 to 50% of their potential. Would you accept that? So then why are we willing to accept that level of misuse unutilization of our people assets? We spend more on people than machines, dear friends.