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Middle managers are the talk of corporate America lately — and Business Insider wants to hear about it.
Tech giants like Google and Microsoft, alongside major retailers like Walmart, are looking for ways to cut costs and streamline bureaucracy. Enter, the Great Flattening: A widespread wipeout of mid-career jobs.
Laid-off managers are pushed into a rocky job market, and those who remain employed are left with an increasing number of direct reports. Millennials and Gen X, who hold most of the US’ managerial roles, are most impacted.
Check out BI’s stories about middle managers:
- Middle managers, beware: The Great Flattening has moved beyond Big Tech
- Millennials, it’s a good time to take a break from your manager era
- The middle manager squeeze at Microsoft has been a career opportunity for me
- Frustrated job seekers are giving up on their dream roles: ‘I’ll take almost anything’
- I’m a 53-year-old middle manager who can’t find a job. This market is a black hole.
- Job searching in 2025? It’s a mess no matter how old you are.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees in June he plans to shrink the company’s white-collar workforce, citing “efficiency gains.” After a round of layoffs, Dell told BI in March that “Through an ongoing series of actions, we are becoming a leaner company,” which will include combining some teams. And, alongside a bout of Meta layoffs in 2023, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “flatter is faster.”
“I don’t think you want a management structure that’s just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work,” he said.
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