Thinning out the ranks

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Middle managers — defined as non-executives who oversee employees — made up almost a third of layoffs in the US, up from 20pc in 2018, according to an analysis by Live Data Technologies for Bloomberg

Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, March 18th, 2024

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