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The permanent removal of headcount — mass [[redundancy]] — usually targeted at that sweet spot in the organisation whose own reports aren’t so ''useless'' they can’t get by without supervision by [[Subject matter expert|someone who genuinely knows what is going on]], and who aren’t so ''senior'' that they get to make decisions about who should be subject to a [[RIF]]. Usually, therefore, | The permanent removal of headcount — mass [[redundancy]] — usually targeted at that sweet spot in the organisation whose own reports aren’t so ''useless'' they can’t get by without supervision by [[Subject matter expert|someone who genuinely knows what is going on]], and who aren’t so ''senior'' that they get to make decisions about who should be subject to a [[RIF]]. Usually, therefore, it is a means of taking out a swathe of mid-ranking [[subject matter experts]]. | ||
===Line management=== | |||
A word about [[Line manager|line management]]: a modern corporation is organised like an inverted, multilayer family tree, trading back to great, great, great, great grandfather [[Hank]]. Everyone, bar [[Hank]], has at least one [[line manager]]. Fortunate staff have only one: ''les miserables'' have a “[[dotted line]]” into someone else. Having a dotted line is somewhat like having an open relationship or an affair with a distant uncle. But we digress. | A word about [[Line manager|line management]]: a modern corporation is organised like an inverted, multilayer family tree, trading back to great, great, great, great grandfather [[Hank]]. Everyone, bar [[Hank]], has at least one [[line manager]]. Fortunate staff have only one: ''les miserables'' have a “[[dotted line]]” into someone else. Having a dotted line is somewhat like having an open relationship or an affair with a distant uncle. But we digress. | ||