https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-company-has-cut-a-third-of-its-managers.html
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Why we need a supervisor supervising 5 direct reports?
@ar must be in a business line. It’s coming your way very soon.
The product is easy to make. The games either DW doesn’t care about , part of it or doesn’t know. Everything else is eye wash or “pds driven”.. For you folks who still care your gradually being pushed out by many means. Enjoy
@am what bs are spouting? Those canadian mafias in the LT are part of the good for nothing managers circle j-rking each other.
Used to be a ton of early supervisor roles in Controllers for employees 5-8 years in. You’d supervise a team of 5 or more folks in areas like revenue accounting, financial accounting, financial reporting, cost accounting, etc. These are all now at the GBCs. In the U.S., you basically just have the Finance General Managers and advisors beneath. Advisor roles uses to be he supervisor or managers with a team of analysts underneath.
@am what you said was BS. Our GBU has manager /employee ratio of 3:1
Those managers only send a couple short useless deletable emails a day while getting big bucks .
IT is in the final stages of outsourcing IT support, after which will come aggressive reduction of "overhead" positions, such as people managers (SDMs), especially in the GBCs. This is been the strategy for 11 years, and was greatly accelerated during the covid years. KQ had his hand in this strategy in 2021 and continues to steer this strategy (aggressively), with his trusted Canadian peers who sit on the LT.
This latest wave may not squeeze out 35%, but definitely 5-10%.
In brief, XOM has been doing this (flattening org structure, reducing overhead) and will continue to do so.
I'm not seeing this, what I now observe in Exxon is thousands of professional people just doing admin. Supervising, raising POs, being Advisors.... Nothing of any substance that impacts the bottom line apart from an overhead.
This is not the fault of people, it's the fault of a company that has lost sight of what is needed internally to deliver and actually outperform. Exxon is now left just being busy, but doing nothing internally of any substance, thus leading to the plethora of people doing meaningless activities.
Obviously Exxon has been doing that. This is part of the reason so many younger employees are demotivated. We no longer have many of the historical first level manager/supervisor roles in the U.S. as they have sent so many of them overseas. Peers at other companies have been managers for years, learning skills to lead others in formal leadership roles. Now at Exxon, a large portion of remaining managerial roles are only available to higher CLs/employees with 15+ experience.