Bloomberg writes that middle managers are being laid off faster than real workers or top execs now. They quote one middle manager who survived previous layoffs and finally got the ax.
Kendall Smith led a marketing team at a health-care staffing tech startup before she was recently let go after surviving previous rounds of layoffs. That marked the second time she’d been let go in 14 months amid the wider Silicon Valley slump. Along the way, she saw patterns emerge. “That middle layer is the most vulnerable because they can’t quantify their impact quite as much,” Smith said.
What is ‘health care staffing tech’? It’s software to help companies lay off employees without taking personal blame. She was ‘marketing’ for a company that helped to disemploy real workers. Now she’s without a job, which means that possibly some real companies won’t get the opportunity to improve their disemployment strategies.
Net gain for real work.
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