Ask HN: Why so many companies reducing middle management recently?
9 arduinomancer 13 4/24/2025, 7:01:58 AM
I understand why you’d want to reduce middle management and eliminate layers of hierarchy
But why would companies all do it at the same time like it’s a trend?
They spend less time coding and more time managing.
So the company is paying for that organizing work all the same.
Probably overpaying for it, since a level up coder is now doing cross-level-down management and doing less architecture as a result.
Despite working in technology sector that should see fads sooner than other fields, I've not seen or heard of any coordination roles being replaced with AI in any level of management yet, or even talks about incorporating it
Can you list these tools?
I wonder when we will see the next cycle. Might be decades away, or even never, if it ends up with a hot war.
I really need to convince my wife to sell our 2nd house ASAP, when there is still market.
Not that there isn't bloat in many places.