Modern Management
More Middle Managers Are Being Laid Off
Among white-collar workers, middle manager job cuts rise to more than 30% of laid-off employees as companies such as Meta preach a culture of efficiency.
Middle managers are increasingly under pressure to prove their worth.
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The latest corporate buzzword is efficiency, and that hasn’t been good for much-maligned middle managers. If you’ve got direct reports, you should probably be looking over your shoulder.
“It’s always been a joke with my peers that middle management is the most dangerous position to be in,” said Cody Sandell, who lost his job late last year as a director of product management at a fintech startup.