Amazon Layoffs: Amazon is reportedly planning to reduce 14,000 managerial positions by early next year in a bid to save $3 billion annually, according to a Morgan Stanley report. This initiative is part of CEO Andy Jassy’s strategy to boost operational efficiency by increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 per cent by March 2025.
Middle management is brutal. No one gives a shit and you have very little power.
Middle Manglement. Don’t forget they have to put their stink on everything to differentiate themselves.
It’s one of the main reasons ideas that do actually work at a c-suite level end up being implemented terribly in the end.
My favorite part of working at a call center was watching this happen. A c-suite member would ask why we weren’t doing X, middle management would scramble to make it happen instead of saying there’s a good reason for it, then the c-suite member would show back up 6 months later asking why the hell they were doing something stupid.
But at the same time nothing is really expected of you - by the people above or below you. And you make more money than the people doing the actual work.
Maybe where you work
Ageeed I’ll never do it again.
In their memo announcing 5 days RTO they also said they’ll be increasing contributor to manager ratio. Guess they meant that by firing a bunch of managers
Firing middle managers is a fun way to kill the company. Not that cleaning house is a bad idea. Unfortunately the people making decisions of who to keep and who to let go are usually idiots.
Middle Managers are promoted for two reasons: technical expertise and ass-kissing expertise. Now the technical experts tend to not mix well with incompetent parasitic c-suite types idiots. The ass-kissers are beloved by the c-suite as that is their only role in life.
So when firings come around guess who they get rid of? Then 1-3 years later everyone is shocked when everything starts to fall apart.
It worked to bring balance to The Force.
Good.
I worked at a job where there would be 4 managers, all “managing” one or two developers to get a task done.
Did you get that memo?
We saw that you’ve been missing a lot of work.
I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob!
What is it, would you say… that… you do here?
I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS. I AM GOOD AT DEALING WITH PEOPLE. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
It’s because they realized the employees are more productive while remote working, so they’ll reinstate it… right?
Hopefully a few thousand of them were the ones responsible for making the website dog shit 😅
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Can I just say, fuck Rufus popping up after every search.
Rufus the OS image creation tool for windows?
Amazon Rufus AI Search Assistant
AI Managers here we come!
Fuck em, they should have taken a stand against Return To Office when it would have mattered
This’ll probably slow down career growth for a lot of people. Less facetime and work visibility for everyone below C-Suite. If your boss has 20 other direct reports, how do you stand out for promotions and raises? Also fewer leadership positions to get promoted to.
Tragic.
shakes head somberly
a surprise to be sure, but an unfortunate one
This comment section gives me hope for this platform.
