Middle Management Is Silently Cracking

They’re misunderstood. They’re frustrated. They’re stressed out. They’re the middle managers in your organisation. And they’re silently cracking.

Show Notes

“As middle management, we know for a fact that there's really nothing much in our control.” - Ishaan*, former manager at a prominent e-learning startup.

In the 4th episode of Cost to Company, we’ll speak to four middle managers who’ll tell us, no holds barred, about what it feels like to be stretched from both ends in an organisation, during an unforgiving year that has inflicted mass layoffs due to the slowdown. 

They’ll talk to us about their struggles, their strife, their confusion. And hopefully, some solutions too. 

How did we get here? Why is the role of a middle manager particularly difficult during a downturn? Do we even need them in the first place?

Listen to the episode as we try to navigate these difficult questions with interesting answers.

*Name changed on request to protect identity 

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Hosted, Written, and Produced by Shreevar Chhotaria

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Shreevar Chhotaria

Host, Producer, Creator of 'Cost to Company' at The Ken. Writer and Photographer otherwise.

What is Cost to Company?

Hear how your workplace is changing. Before you hear it on Slack.

In this new weekly podcast, get answers to the biggest questions about how modern Indian workplaces are changing, often even before they become popular questions to ask. Sneha Vakharia, Shreevar Chhotaria, and Akshaya Chandrasekaran, take turns week by week with a fresh new story, fresh new voices, and a fresh take on the Indian workplace