More Middle Managers Are Being Laid Off

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if you’ve got direct reports, you should probably be looking over your shoulder.

“It’s always been a joke with my peers that middle management is the most dangerous position to be in,” said Cody Sandell, who lost his job late last year as a director of product management at a fintech startup.

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

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