Amazon Layoffs: Jassy highlighted the importance of fostering a culture characterised by urgency, accountability, swift decision-making, resourcefulness, frugality, and collaboration

Amazon Layoffs: Amazon is reportedly planning to reduce 14,000 managerial positions by early next year in a bid to save $3 billion annually, according to a Morgan Stanley report. This initiative is part of CEO Andy Jassy’s strategy to boost operational efficiency by increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 per cent by March 2025.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    1 month ago

    Middle Manglement. Don’t forget they have to put their stink on everything to differentiate themselves.

    It’s one of the main reasons ideas that do actually work at a c-suite level end up being implemented terribly in the end.

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlineEnglish
      221·
      1 month ago

      My favorite part of working at a call center was watching this happen. A c-suite member would ask why we weren’t doing X, middle management would scramble to make it happen instead of saying there’s a good reason for it, then the c-suite member would show back up 6 months later asking why the hell they were doing something stupid.