We have a total of 14.7k managers who don’t do any work and get paid way more than the average employee. Cutting management size by half would result in great savings without hurting the productivity.
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I do agree. A manager at Intel has 7 employees on average from what I have heard. 15K managers in total sounds about right. While I do agree there are too many managers at Intel, I think about 25% of them are useful to the company. The remaining 75% are just expensive overhead.
I would look at the manager feedback provided by the employees and get rid of the ones with a majority of bad rating. The higher the management chain goes the less work gets done and less awareness there is on what's really happening where the actual work gets done. Therefore, I would remove more higher level managers than lower ones that are actually closer to where the valuable work is happening.
where is you get the 14.7k number? I think that there is a 99.986% chance that you made it up. see its easy
yes, there are to many managers
Intel managers are either dated dotards waiting to retire or non-technical barely people managers with no process knowledge letting their Project Managers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts run the show. Intel managers have managed to delegate all there responsibility away while making great money. No risk, no skill, high reward.
While I agree there are too many managers, I don't agree that they don't work. As well as having to manage, they are expected to perform a full-time job on top of that. I make more money than my boss, so that argument is also not universal.
My manager works harder than anyone else. I admire his dedication and willingness to help.
I agree there's a bunch of lazy guys who do nothing all day, but at least this time, I have to say this guy is the best I've had in many years.
And yes, even if he had to give me the news of me being picked for CPM I would still think he is great.
Intel needs to produce what consumers will buy. Producing chips that don’t sell and inventorying them is the problem. I agree that Intel does seem to be “top-heavy”, but I think the problem is above the manager level. The managers will be needed if upper management can figure out how to steer a company of this size!
@yew is clearly a manager
The managers are best thing Intel has going for it!