Middle managers are becoming an endangered species in Corporate America, with some companies viewing the role as obsolete , writes Business Insider's Lindsay Dodgson.
Remote work, tech efficiencies, and a general push to cut costs have contributed to middle managers' demise.
It's a strategy Corporate America, particularly Big Tech, deployed in 2023.
The "year of efficiency," as Mark Zuckerberg dubbed it, was all about flattening organizations, and middle managers were the ones getting squished .
The death of middle managers could also fuel the current dismantling of another cohort: the middle class .
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