This "flattening" / removal of middle management thing is just so fun to me having considered "we have a flat management structure" as one of the top red flags in a potential employer for so many many years lolll
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Proclamations of flat management are a great way to tell people who are not white men not to work at your company
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@sue conveniently, that seems to be the whole MO of the AI revolution anyway, so I expect they’d be delighted.
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Why? Because whatever takes the place of management structure is almost always worse and comes with zero accountability nor paths for advocacy regarding accessing opportunities.. It overwhelmingly benefits white men to the exclusion of everyone else
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@[email protected] It's always the simple sounding ideas that sound appealing. Remove management, meritocracy, unlimited annual leave... it's almost like life is a little more complicated than most of us really want to engage with.
Especially because it's always easier to assume things are simple if the problems aren't happening to you.
Of course, it's even more frustrating when we then avoid the simple things that do actually have an evidential basis. Working less than ~35 hours a week is long term more productive? Giving homeless people homes is a (comparatively) cheap and effective way of dealing of dealing with homelessness? Madness! The real world can't possible work like that!
