I work in the public sector, in an organisation of circa 2,400 people, and I feel confident saying in ND-world efficiency would be improved. The likes of us don’t want to have meetings just for the sake of having meetings, we don’t want to spend half the meetings talking about our weekends or holiday plans or whatever, and we certainly don’t then want to have more meetings about the bloody meetings that we’ve already had. We want to analyse, understand, plan, execute, evaluate - to get shit done. And ok, sometimes there may be internal barriers to getting shit done (am ASD/ADHD/dyslexic so I know those barriers well!) but at least there wouldn’t be layer upon layer of poxy pointless nonsensical external barriers on top of it all.
And I haven’t even started on office politics and mediocrity rising to the top, or the power that inertia has in the organisation. It’s impossible to innovate or improve anything because people simply don’t want things to be better. Lots of them can’t envisage that things could be better, never mind have a vision of what better would look like or how to get there. And when we see problems and we point them out, somehow WE become the problem, not the actual problem. And we get put on someone’s shit list and have our career prospects damaged. In ND-world, we’d have none (or at least very little) of that BS.
Why yes, I am deeply unhappy in my current workplace. Makes a huge deal out of welcoming diversity, which sounds great until you start working there and realise they only welcome diversity as long as it’s not diversity of approach or opinion or thought process.