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Sarah E. Needleman

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173 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

And so.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

For the worker, yeah, there's less of an opportunity to treat your manager as your pseudo-therapist.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

Yeah.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

Which, you know, maybe that's a good thing.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

Maybe they're turning to AI to vent and get that advice now, possibly.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

But companies are really focused on efficiency and getting work done, less on yapping and

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

you know, hearing people out, but little minutia.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

That may be one way of putting it.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

I'm not really sure.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

But I think AI is helping to take up some of the grunt tasks, like the annoying repetitive work, or it could just, when there's just such a big workload, it could summarize information and help with the performance review and decision-making, you know, using data to reach those conclusions.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

And so perhaps that is how...

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

Managers are going to get by going forward.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

I mean, we're still at the very early stages of this.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

It's very experimental at this point.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

Well, I mean, look, it's going to go

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

be different on a company by company basis.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

And so Meta has their definitions for these that we've reported on at Business Insider.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

And same with Block has been quite transparent about their new titles and what they mean.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

But at the end of the day, I think it comes down to more than just a brief description.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Goodbye Middle Managers, Hello Player-Coaches

And some of the experts I spoke to for this story said it comes down to changing performance expectations