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Less safe in a downturn. When a company wants to tighten its belt but is still mostly solid, and don't have particular products that are clear losers, middle m
by not2b 6y ago
Less safe in a downturn. When a company wants to tighten its belt but is still mostly solid, and don't have particular products that are clear losers, middle managers are an attractive target: they need the engineers to do the work and support the customers, and the sales people to bring in the money, but if they can get by with fewer managers, maybe they can do all that for less.
- dominotw 6y agoI was looking at airbnb layoffs[1]. There didn't see to be a lot of middle managers on the list. Ofcourse, I don't know the ratio but i was expecting to see more middle management than engineers. https://www.airbnb.com/d/talent?location=&uuid=&relocation=&remote=&function=Engineering&page=1 https://www.airbnb.com/d/talent?location=&uuid=&relocation=&...
- gowld 6y agoJobs that scale linearly in proppotion to demand, like customer service and sales (anything where most of your time is spent focused on one client at a time), get cut when demand drops.