Dear Oxy,
Here’s an idea: Instead of planning to lay-off the individual contributors who actually get work done, please consider laying off the middle management who are great at attending meetings and not leading. They are more expensive and unnecessary. You can replace them by providing the individual contributors with chances for industry level training. That way your already slim staff doesn’t have to take on even more workload.
How? Administer a performance review on middle management given by individual contributors. It’ll stop the petty politics and hold middle management accountable for being leaders, not presentation goers. Let HR figure it out from there. #foodforthought #rewardgoodmanagers #efficiency #fireoverpaidspectators #finalfrontier