Layoff the entire PowerPoint skilled managers
Give competitive base pay to all those performing well and doing heavy work
Intel can easily operate with 80k people who are well paid and motivated
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So many orgs they are doing the opposite, merging the orgs under dead weights and making performing managers as product owners with no reports. Telling teams this is only academic exercise and only on paper. This is how they reducing the fat… defeating all the purpose to lay off these useless ppt managers who never come onsite but brown noses management up the chain
It just seems the co. is incapable of fundamentally restructuring how it is organized and how it gets work done...
Number of layers in the organization and the number of employees per manager is a simpleton's view of symptoms to a much much bigger problem. Cutting levels in the org is necessary but not sufficient to actually change how the outfit organizes itself to improve competitiveness.
This is where PG is going. But there will be some talent erosion, but the gain is worth the loss.
Clearly, Intel management has no expertise for doing this kind of work.
Would an outsider, say Broadcom, be able to do it?
We neither have a good performance management system OR capable managers to judge the employees output.
Instead we have managers expert in nepotisim and cronyism & who are looking for empire building and rapid personal growth. These managers will flourish even in this environment.
It has been over 20 years of needing to remove the spreadsheet managers, reduce 8+ levels of management hierarchy with ~6 direct reports, move "staff" support to work on products, and promote individual contributors based on talent. No behavior change in 20 years with market dominance. Totally frustrating watching them rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic without a significant course change.
Totally agree. This is exactly what the Fab needs, sack the thick & useless people that get away with doing nothing and raise the pay for the harder working lads. They are carrying half their teams workload anyway.
It’s too late. The only way your theory would work is if the layoffs were implemented properly meaning cherry pick the low performers. This didn’t happen. The multiple rounds of voluntary separation will be another massive brain drain and there is no way Intel will attract the talent it needs.