Why “The Great Flattening” Means It’s Time to Take Control of Your Career
If you checked your email first thing this morning and felt that familiar pit in your stomach, you’re not alone. Was it Walmart’s announcement of 1,500 corporate layoffs? Or maybe Amazon’s Andy Jassy declaring middle managers tend to “put their fingerprint on everything” right before pushing yet another flattening of their org chart? Yeah, that hits home.
Look, you’re not imagining things. Middle management is squarely in the crosshairs—and that bullseye keeps getting bigger.
They’re calling it “The Great Flattening,” a phrase as brutal as it is precise. What began as a Silicon Valley special has rippled out to retail giants, Walmart included, and it’s roaring forward without pause. If you’re stuck in middle management, you’re probably juggling heavier workloads while watching peers get the pink slips. You’re the buffer between disgruntled frontline workers and tightfisted executives — and let’s be real, wondering if your title’s next on the chopping block is exhausting.
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