We think of them as petty, powerless, thumb-twiddling bureaucrats. But middle managers are actually the very people who make large companies work.

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Jamba Juice's former CEO, James D. White, said he's all for middle management. He said this layer drives good company culture, which is important for bottom-line growth. But the trend in corporate ...

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Alvaro Munevar Jr. leveraged middle management jobs to help him retire early from his tech career. Now, Big Tech companies are culling middle managers, a reduction that Munevar Jr. said makes sense.

Corporate America is quietly rewriting the org chart, and the first casualties are the people who used to sit between ...

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The thinning of Corporate America's middle management is putting millennials and Gen Z at risk.

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Data from Gusto, a San Francisco-based payroll software services company, show that in 2019, mid-level managers used to have an average of three direct reports. As of the end of 2024, that figure had ...

What comes to mind when you think of the term “middle manager?” Is it someone who has little power, spends a lot of time micro-managing people and whose career is in a rut? We wouldn’t blame you for ...