"If anything, middle managers are more important than that were before. I’m sure upper management will just see them as a cost-cutting measure though and write

"If anything, middle managers are more important than that were before. I’m sure upper management will just see them as a cost-cutting measure though and write specious articles like this to justify their idiocy. " I only disagree about one thing in that sentence. It is missing one qualifier. 'Good middle managers are more important than there were'.