At the current scale, multiple layers of management are not required. For teams of approximately 50 employees, one manager is sufficient to ensure effective supervision and decision-making. Maintaining additional management layers leads to unnecessary overhead and increased costs without proportional value.
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I am a union employee working working on the South Real estate facilities team. I watch the southern facilities team run by our Director named Bruce. As a team we talk about it all the time. Since almost every building in the Southern states is outsourced other than Hidden Ridge. Why do they need a group of four or five staff managers reporting to the director. Why not eliminate those people and have the senior outsourced person who they report to, report directly into Bruce. Right there it’s Five jobs. It’s probably the same in the store channel. We think the VP is just holding on to headcount Makes you wonder
@OP the managers with under 10 and a lot with still only 5-10 or even less. The director should be fired.
One local for every 15-18 guys is rediculous. They can send emails to 1 or 100 techs in the same amount of time.
At the current scale, one manager can effectively oversee a team of about 50 employees. Additional management layers add unnecessary cost and overhead without delivering meaningful value.
I think a lot of managers are just as frustrated. When HR took over their power to distribute raises, hire who they wanted or even have a say in who they wanted to save in this last RIF only to be left with the incompetent slackers why try anymore.
We need managers. If there are none then who will order us pens and paper?
@OP The AD's in North Jersey have sc--wed up an I.E.N project so badly ,that this company is probably losing about $300,000 a month in revenue. But instead of addressing it or even acknowledging the losses they just keep changing the missed due dates to future dates and nobody's even noticed yet... nobody higher up knows and I don't even think they would be able to figure it out. These managers are counting on the fact that nobody knows anything anymore around here. I'm pretty sure they're going to be right. And that's just the customers that want to stay with us The ones that gave up and left we will never know about.
stop guessing, you have no idea how business thinks
Most of the field techs have been around long enough and don't need a manager at all. Many layers of middle management are pretty useless. Their main function is to regurgitate whatever meaningless metrics they are instructed to from the higher ups to their underlings.
The A.I. is going to be the future manager until it can get rid of most people in the office.
ADs turn this next round!
How about we replace the ceo and board with AI and save hundreds of millions
multiple layers of management are only required when an organization has incompetents in its ranks, otherwise you just need the proper delegation among key figures.
@a2 sounds like some of the teams that are par of the HQ group.
GAAL has way too managers…
It should be based on product/ application/ area.
If 10 people are working on one product/ area/ application.. you do not need 5 managers over it.