Barclays Wants Senior Leaders in the Office Four Days a Week
Barclays is raising office attendance for UK staff to three days a week and asking senior leaders for four, prompting a union-backed protest letter.
Management
Apple's New CEO Thins the Layers Between Engineers and the Top
John Ternus reportedly wants Apple to run leaner and faster, starting with fewer middle-management roles between engineers and senior executives.
Kroger CEO Takes Aim at Layers, Handoffs and Overhead
Kroger plans to remove about 3,000 corporate jobs over three years as its new CEO tries to strip out excess layers and move resources closer to customers.
HubSpot Flattens Its Hierarchy and Rebuilds Teams Around Customers
HubSpot is cutting about 7% of its staff, reducing management layers and reorganizing product teams around customer outcomes rather than separate product Hubs.
Uber Trims 3,300 Roles and a Fifth of Its Managers
Uber is cutting about 10% of its global workforce to strip out management layers, halve its tiny teams and pull almost everyone back to the office.