#middle-management

#middle-management

Many organizations, Gans suggests, resemble public airports - full of people waiting for phones to ring, managing buffers, absorbing uncertainty.

An executive boasting that working in an office equals success will find workers focusing on visual performance rather than actual work output. Key performance indicators tied to your physical location can push actual meaningful contributions to the wayside. Many executives claim getting "back" to the pre-COVID work environment will be better for the company's overall performance. Yet, a pre-pandemic 2018 Workplace Distraction Report by Udemy found that 54% of respondents ​​aren't performing as well as they should due to workplace distractions.

British businesses are wasting more than £13 billion a year in lost productivity as middle managers spend weeks dealing with avoidable, low-value work, according to new research by YouGov. The findings - published in the fifth annual Feedback from the Field report by workplace operations platform SafetyCulture - reveal that middle managers lose an average of 7.3 weeks a year to unnecessary or repetitive tasks, including unproductive meetings, email overload, and correcting others' mistakes. The cost of that inefficiency is staggering: when managers' wages are combined with the scale of the UK's frontline workforce, the total wasted time amounts to £13.2 billion annually, the report estimates.

I intentionally stayed in the middle management bracket, where I was paid well and typically worked 40 to 45 hours most weeks. This meant I had enough time to build a real-estate side business.