“As you add a lot of people, you end up with a lot of middle managers and those middle managers, all well-intended, want to put their fingerprint on everything. So you end up with these people being in the pre-meeting, for the pre-meeting, for the pre-meeting, for the decision meeting,” says #Amazon #CEO Andy Jassy on how the company is restructuring its middle managers and its #returntooffice policies. #work #jobs #workfromhome #worklifebalance #business

As you add a lot of people you end up with a lot of middle managers and those middle managers all well-intended want to put their fingerprint on everything. So you end up with these people being in the pre-meeting for the pre-meeting for the pre-meeting for the decision meeting and not always making recommendations and owning things the way we want that type of ownership. So we took a goal collectively to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by over 15% as a company by the end of this quarter. We've made very good progress in that. We've beat that already. And it's gonna allow us for the people that are doing the work, they're gonna have more ownership and they're gonna be able to move more quickly. And then I think the other thing we saw was that if you're a culture that invents a lot and collaborates a lot like we do, if you don't have people in the office together doing that invention, it's just meaningfully worse. And you don't invent the same way. You don't collaborate the same way. You don't connect with each other the same way. You don't learn the culture the same way. And so having people back in the office together more frequently, we felt very strongly that it's gonna be better for customers in the business.