Comment by siren2026

Nobody is blaming the middle or frontline managers here. Those people are driven and genuinely want to do a good job

But what we are saying here is that they are essentially an artificial layer of busywork that adds very little value. This is what decades of empire building and organizational issues have created.

It's slowly changing and people are realizing a lot of the manager work is self-created and sustained.

My prediction is that most tech companies will go through flattening cycles now that we start realizing that adding managers adds a similar amount of busywork.