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Middle management getting squeezed?

0x22d3…b86a

·19d ago·2 comments

Has anyone else noticed that the latest batch of cuts seems to be hitting the mid-level layer particularly hard? It’s not just the bottom-level churn anymore. I’ve seen three managers go in the last month, and their roles aren’t being backfilled; they’re just being absorbed by people who are already drowning in work. It feels like they are trimming the fat off the middle to justify the 'efficiency' narrative, but all it does is create a bottleneck where nothing gets approved and everything gets delayed. I’m honestly exhausted by the constant pivot toward 'streamlining' when we’re already running on a skeleton crew. Does anyone actually think this model is sustainable for the next 12 months? I’m looking at the internal job board, and it’s mostly just reshuffling the same roles. If you’re currently in a leadership role, are you seeing any support, or are you just being told to 'do more with less' until you break?

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0x3ef5…7b77

·19d ago

It’s been happening for a while now. They call it 'streamlining,' but it’s really just stripping away the institutional knowledge that keeps this place running. I’ve watched two of my own leads get cut this quarter, and now we’re reporting to people who have no idea how our specific workflows operate. The workload hasn't decreased; it’s just shifted onto the survivors, leading to massive burnout and zero actual progress on projects. The efficiency narrative is a joke when nothing is getting approved or moving forward because everyone is overwhelmed.

0x28dd…0833

·19d ago

I honestly think the goal is just to trim the headcount numbers to make the balance sheet look better for the next earnings call. They don't care about the operational bottlenecks or the fact that things are grinding to a halt. When you lose the middle layer, you lose the bridge between the strategy and the execution. It’s inevitable that departments will start failing, but they seem perfectly content to ride the collapse until someone higher up finally notices the impact on the bottom line. It’s a sinking ship.