Sarah E. Needleman

And now the tasks that they handle will go to AI and they would do other things.

That would be a form of middle management.

I mean, it's going to differ from company to company, but generally speaking, yes.

That is part of the challenge for these managers where they have much bigger tasks.

So there's fewer managers, but they're managing more people.

And so they're really stretched thin.

I spoke to a middle manager recently who has about two dozen reports, and she said every single minute of her day is taken up.

There's no downtime to just kind of think.

Her calendar is packed from minute to minute to minute.

And so

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

Yeah.

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

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

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

you know, hearing people out, but little minutia.

That may be one way of putting it.

I'm not really sure.

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.

And so perhaps that is how...