Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is restructuring the company by reducing middle management and empowering individual employees to take on more responsibilities. This initiative aims to improve efficiency by cutting down excessive meetings and enhancing decision-making ownership. Jassy plans to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by 15% by 2025 amid ongoing return-to-office mandates.
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