Middle Managers Drive the Drop in US Employee Confidence to a Record Low

  • Glassdoor measure deteriorates for staff across all ranks
  • Tech, media sentiment worsens as mentions of layoffs rise

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Confidence among middle-managers dropped to its worst-ever reading in February, pushing a broader index of US employee sentiment down to a record low.

“Middle managers are under pressure to do more with less,” Glassdoor economist Daniel Zhao said in a report Monday. The group’s confidence is now similar to that of entry-level workers, which fell last month to the lowest in seven years, the job-review site’s Employee Confidence Index showed.