Generally layoffs include management cuts as well.

There are far more employees than executives, though. Think about how many employees are in the org chart under a single VP.

Numerically you can’t get appreciable cost reductions by reducing management alone.

Bloat can be all over the place, it’s not exclusive to the top of org charts

Bloat at the top, whether people, process, or organizational bloat, has an amplification effect that isn’t found at the bottom.

It's a trap companies can easily find themselves in. If you're looking to cut costs, the first thing the C-Suite will look at is all the workers that aren't adding immediate business value, so you cut them first; simple and easy. Then as tech debt and issues pile up, you, as management, figure that your first approach to figuring out what's going wrong is to hire managers and consultants to understand why your workers aren't as productive as before. Unfortunately all of these middle managers just create more burden on workers as they are micromanaged and sent to meetings more by managers looking to justify their existence. Of course these managers will say whatever the C-Suite wants to hear to keep their jobs, so more blame is pushed onto the lowest level, more managers are hired to try to make them more productive, and a vicious cycle continues.

prbobaly not a whole from the layoffs i've seen at 2 of my employers.

classic IC answer

source: I'm an IC

Is there a position there?

Those are the people making the layoff decisions...