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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by ryandrake on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:43AM (#34742078)
> Zuck made this pretty clear in a previous brief and talked about getting rid of the number of middle managers.

Google did an experiment long ago, trying to get rid of managers. It was a total disaster/failure[1]. Seems BigTech wants to re-discover this the hard way themselves.

1: https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/google-tried-to-prove-manage...

(there are many links describing this experiment, picked a random one)

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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by mulligan on Friday February 10, 2023 @03:10PM (#34745095)
removing some layers of management is not the same as removing all managers. this google writeup discusses removing all managers
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