[CamouflagedKiwi]

> What happened to the days when a dedicated manager would manage 8 reports?

Cheap money went away which caused companies to start asking hard questions about productivity and how much those dedicated managers were contributing.

[dormento]

Then there's the convenient answer of "AI made me do it", to which investors are somehow really empathetic... feels like every company CEO is operating on the mindset of "its gonna hit the fan any moment now", except they're the ones holding the fan.