News Summary

• The Great Flattening has meant fewer managers overseeing larger teams.
• The intense pace of work can make relationships with employees more about getting work done and less about long-term development.
• "It's not managing the human, it's managing the work.
• And it's much more sink or swim," Paddy Lambros, founder and CEO of Dex, said.
• The squeeze reflects a broader rethinking happening in tech about what a manager should do, Lambros said.
• "Managers of managers, to me, is a role that's meant to disappear, and I think AI is accelerating that," Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz said.