https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-linkedin-workers-workforce.html
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In a bo-m cycle, it's not a great use of resources to try to really tighten up the manger/report ratios because the size of the org because the slack lets you grow faster.
The higher the growth, the more managers at a more inefficient manager/report ratio generally.
Certain orgs in LinkedIn were growing really fast. Now they're not and they know the headcount for the next year, time to ratchet down the number of managers to get a more steady, cost-efficient ratio.
Not at LI but… firing entire levels of middle management seems to be a fashion these days, but from experience in my org it has been counterproductive.
my current manager now has >60 direct reports so can’t even find the time to handle each of our basic hr tasks, let alone provide any leadership.
in theory i can see the board salivating to pretend they are elon but in practice it’s a dysfunctional nightmare.
plus it’s bad for ic morale because there is now no path forward for advancing our careers to the managerial level.
I'm at LI and my reporting chain is Sr mgr > Sr Director > VP > Sr vp > CEO.
A year ago it was mgr > sr mgr > director > sr Director> vp> svp > ceo.
No one in my management chain was impacted but the flattening has been happening organically as folks leave. LI has a distinctive lack of chill right now contrary to the company image, but generally things are just moving faster.