There are still many redundant managers in ESG.
ESG could borrow Amazon’s layoff criteria to weed out them:
Managers reporting into other managers at the same level.
Managers with less than half their direct reports in the same location.
Managers with fewer than 8 direct reports.
Managers who are remote employees themselves.
The GM of ESG should really take a hard look at the managers under the directors, since directors will always try to protect the ones they’re tight with. And keep an eye on recent org changes, because reporting lines can get shuffled around just to help certain managers dodge these criteria.