Use It or Lose It Budgets

The cluster focuses on organizational budgeting practices where unspent funds are lost, creating incentives to spend budgets fully regardless of necessity, and debates around fixed budgets and poor incentive structures.

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kirykl Oct 4, 2023 View on HN

Budget not spent is budget lost

birn559 Jul 16, 2025 View on HN

Sounds like cutting the budget will make things worse.

I believe you missed the "fixed budget" part of the parent

overitthrowaway Jun 25, 2021 View on HN

It's likely just a case of "it it ain't broken, there's no budget"

mhluongo Jul 7, 2023 View on HN

Why? They have a fixed budget after all.

goodpoint Oct 13, 2021 View on HN

Sorry I had to clarify that I meant in terms of budget, not headcount.

dblohm7 Jun 2, 2020 View on HN

Not when you're up against billion-dollar budgets.

frandroid Apr 20, 2015 View on HN

Clearly, they've got the budgeting upside down...

lysace Nov 12, 2025 View on HN

It seems to me like they spent most of their budget on things that don't really matter.

arkidd11 Feb 7, 2018 View on HN

The budget in that way seems to be a dampener