Amazon Layoffs: Amazon is reportedly planning to reduce 14,000 managerial positions by early next year in a bid to save $3 billion annually, according to a Morgan Stanley report. This initiative is part of CEO Andy Jassy’s strategy to boost operational efficiency by increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 per cent by March 2025.
In their memo announcing 5 days RTO they also said they’ll be increasing contributor to manager ratio. Guess they meant that by firing a bunch of managers
Middle management is brutal. No one gives a shit and you have very little power.
Middle Manglement. Don’t forget they have to put their stink on everything to differentiate themselves.
It’s one of the main reasons ideas that do actually work at a c-suite level end up being implemented terribly in the end.
Ageeed I’ll never do it again.
Middle management deserves everything it gets.
Upper management deserves everything it gets. Middle management is often underpaid and expected to do all the jobs of their own plus their superiors.
Some *organisational tasks will always be needed. Middle management does that plus fielding some amount of customer service, plus a lot of what upper management takes credit for.
The system is fucked, but we shouldn’t let the people doing barely anything to earn their yachts turn us against those grinding their own bones to glue the grind-house together.
(No, I’m not a middle-manager.)
I think my job is technically a middle manager at this point?
The reality is that the priorities come straight from the top, people in my team are mostly self-organised unless the tasks they choose were to be wildly misaligned with company milestones (which in practice never happens) or people have questions about what needs tackling first or when by, and I’m mostly a technical unblocker that jumps into the hardest or slowest moving technical challenges.
My point to all of this - “middle manager” is a wildly different concept in every company. Nobody likes a pen pusher with no knowledge, but also no company hires people into the title of “middle manager” hoping they’ll boss people around cluelessly. If that happens and that role exists, something has gone clearly wrong IMO.
If you take a job shoveling shit, am I supposed to feel bad for you when you shovel shit?
It’s because they realized the employees are more productive while remote working, so they’ll reinstate it… right?
Hopefully a few thousand of them were the ones responsible for making the website dog shit 😅
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Good.
I worked at a job where there would be 4 managers, all “managing” one or two developers to get a task done.
Did you get that memo?
What is it, would you say… that… you do here?
We saw that you’ve been missing a lot of work.
I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob!
This’ll probably slow down career growth for a lot of people. Less facetime and work visibility for everyone below C-Suite. If your boss has 20 other direct reports, how do you stand out for promotions and raises? Also fewer leadership positions to get promoted to.
Tragic.
