Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips Why Corporate Jobs Are Quietly Collapsing
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Oct 9, 2025 The decline of corporate jobs and the hidden layers of corporate bloat take center stage. The hosts explore how AI is reshaping workflows and the consequences of pointless roles. They discuss the implications of job data indicating a corporate contraction and challenge conventional wisdom about hiring operators. Micromanagement gets a new light as a strategic tool to mitigate risk, while the myth of 'riches in niches' is critiqued for its scalability issues. A fresh perspective on preventing burnout highlights the need for ongoing momentum over vacations.
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Document-Making VP Reveals Corporate Nonsense
- A VP at a tech company described managing 12 people who make documents for teams that make documents for leaders who don't read them.
- Eric calls this the "hidden economy of nonsense" signaling the death of many corporate jobs.
Executives Want Data, Not Documents
- Executives prefer concise updates so long slide decks and docs become wasteful overhead.
- Eric and Neil see layoffs and ADP data as early signals that bloated corporate roles are collapsing.
Real-Time Job Data Shows Early Decline
- ADP reported a 30,000 private-sector job decrease and government revisions trimmed prior job counts.
- Neil prefers ADP for real-time accuracy and warns government stats can be gamed and revised.
