Corporate America has found a blunt instrument for cutting costs: remove the people in the middle. Across sectors, companies are stripping out layers of supervisors and project leads, betting that ...

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While flatter organizational structures can increase efficiency, they also introduce new pressure points—especially when ...

We think of them as petty, powerless, thumb-twiddling bureaucrats. But middle managers are actually the very people who make large companies work.

Corporate America is quietly rewriting the org chart, and the first casualties are the people who used to sit between ...

Judd Antin, who spent 10 years leading teams at Meta and Airbnb, says leaders should invest in middle managers, rather than cutting their jobs in the "Great Flattening." ...

Alvaro Munevar Jr. leveraged middle management jobs to help him retire early from his tech career. Now, Big Tech companies are culling middle managers, a reduction that Munevar Jr. said makes sense.

A growing company’s success often depends on the relationship between the C-suite and middle management. When managers set their own teams up for success, it facilitates the C-suite and the rest of ...

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI is transforming the way businesses operate, but successful adoption isn’t just about technology – it’s about people. Management and technology consultancy BearingPoint’s ...

I spent several years of my career in the uncomfortable role of middle manager. On one side, I had executives asking me why my team couldn’t “do more,” and on the other side, my employees told me they ...

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There's a great scene in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga; I think it was in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The lead characters find themselves on a spaceship full ...