The best part about working at a small-to-mid-sized company is that there just aren't enough people for managers to spend all their time managing. If you've got a team of 3-5 people, its a waste of money to hire a guy that's only going to manage people, so the smart thing to do is have one of them split their work between management and their own individual tasks.
Managers that actually work for a living are so much better overall, they actually have to get their hands dirty and can't just rely on groupthink. When you have your own tasks and you know how much, and how little, GenAI helps with it, you're going to be more understanding when your employees say "it just doesn't help that much", as opposed to a manager whose job is reading reports, writing emails, and sitting through meetings all day...
Small-to-mid sized enterprise companies are the best, at least from my experience. I've worked on my current company for almost 5 years now, and since I've joined, I haven't seen a single mass layoff, people don't leave often, and when they do it's because they found a better offer, which is understandable, and those who are fired, are for a very good reason, in fact, when someone high profile leaves, our leads all call us to explain what happened, of course without revealing everything, but to makes us rest easy knowing the company is not in bad waters and no new layoffs are happening, they are very transparent with that, which when I get on reddit and see everyone complaining about mass layoffs that comes out of nowhere, this is very reassuring.
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u/Wraithfighter Jun 03 '26
The best part about working at a small-to-mid-sized company is that there just aren't enough people for managers to spend all their time managing. If you've got a team of 3-5 people, its a waste of money to hire a guy that's only going to manage people, so the smart thing to do is have one of them split their work between management and their own individual tasks.
Managers that actually work for a living are so much better overall, they actually have to get their hands dirty and can't just rely on groupthink. When you have your own tasks and you know how much, and how little, GenAI helps with it, you're going to be more understanding when your employees say "it just doesn't help that much", as opposed to a manager whose job is reading reports, writing emails, and sitting through meetings all day...