by Emily Peck at Axios
Average number of individual contributors per people manager at small businesses
The above chart may explain why your boss is taking longer to get back to you lately: She’s got a lot more underlings to watch over.
Driving the news: People managers now oversee about twice as many workers as just five years ago, per a new analysis.
Why it matters: Middle managers — i.e. bosses who have bosses — were already quietly going extinct, and now AI may be hastening the process.
By the numbers: There are now nearly six individual contributors per manager at the 8,500 small businesses analyzed in a report by Gusto, which handles payroll for small and medium-sized employers. That’s up from a little over three in 2019…
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