Forty percent of employees whose companies cut management layers say they feel a lack of direction.

Amazon just eliminated sixteen thousand roles citing AI. Is your organization next — and do you know what you're actually cutting?

In Episode 1 of Idea Express, host K.C. Barr unpacks the efficiency case for AI-driven middle management cuts — and the human cost that never makes it into the restructuring model.

Drawing on Korn Ferry's Workforce 2025 survey of fifteen thousand professionals and Gartner's prediction that twenty percent of organizations will eliminate more than half of middle management by end of 2026, K.C. walks through three pract ...