'The flattening': Inside Big Tech's cull of middle managers

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'The flattening': Inside Big Tech's cull of middle managers
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Middle management jobs across tech are in peril as companies target them for layoffs to improve efficiency and cut costs. Read more

“When you leave here, everyone assumes you’re going to go and run things ,” the person said. “It created a lot of people who wanted to become managers.”

As a result, there were “too many people on too many calls,” the person said, describing the phenomenon as a type of “digital presenteeism.” One industry insider echoed those sentiments, arguing that Silicon Valley had increasingly facilitated everyone getting “chiefs of staff” in a similar way to bureaucratic government agencies, offering jobs merely to create work for people to manage.Article content

Such shake-ups were also “going to send a message to that ‘we don’t have anywhere to grow to,'” she added, meaning the company may lose talented staff prematurely and suffer from knowledge gaps. Some staff, however, while frustrated by the job cuts, are hopeful the overhaul will pave the way for rapid innovation to return to companies such as Meta and Twitter.

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