The cost of vertical work silos, as explained by wakame and tempura

An idle worker next to an overloaded station is a vivid example of specialization turning local efficiency into systemwide waste

Yeah, that's totally true, but work has gotten way too vertically siloed, so the person whose only job is to add wakame absolutely never crosses over into anything else, right? Next to them, the chikuwa tempura station is insanely backed u