Sure, and it's often warranted to be cynical about this, but the work about the work is really really important. Often the lower level worker thinks they do everything and the upper levels just chat and politick around. E.g. if you're a truck driver you may think you are the one doing the real work. But if the bosses miscalculate if it's profitable to enter into a relationship with a customer and haul their stuff from A to B, your job won't exist. If the product managers decide to build a product that nobody will need and buy, then you can do your best engineering work and it will be for nothing. If you're a construction worker operating the drill to build a subway line, it may feel like the bosses are just having meetings and fun chats all the time, but it matters where the metro is built, they have to balance lots of interests and talk to lots of people. Real estate prices will be impacted, noise will be impacted, more people will start to show up in some places, convenience will be impacted, all that needs to be balanced with the soil situation, underground waters, etc. etc.

Decide what work should be done is just as important as the actual work, sometimes more.