There are more and more signs that the US is evolving into an “either or” job culture. Middle management has been hit hard by layoffs and technology is replacing the need for middle managers as either communicators or distributors of work.
The experts predict that this change is permanent and that we are rapidly moving toward an employment landscape of low paid, commodity-like service workers and well paid, technology savvy, knowledge workers. There will be no middle.
Since the US has maintained its standard of living by a very large number of well paid, mid-level employees, I wonder what the future will be like with no middle. I’m not optimistic that we can continue our standard of living and our economy as it was in the past.
