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Why the purge of middle managers could backfire
Layers of management help bigger bosses get stuff done. Their loss will come back to bite companies sooner than they realize.
We’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Middle managers are on the chopping block at Uber, Intel, Coinbase and other companies. Top executives seem to view them as unnecessary speed bumps on the highway to innovation, and rank-and-file workers love to gripe about layers of bosses who do, what, exactly?
It’s hard to think of another role that gets so little love from both ends of the org chart.
