the pandemic rendered useless a whole level of management whose entire job was to physically monitor the employees and the bosses are MAD

— Molly Priddy (@mollypriddy) December 26, 2021

I think this is basically it. The pandemic made it obvious that a whole MBA layer or two was completely redundant and they know it, their bosses (don’t want to but do) know it, and it’s causing huge bureaucratic stress in corporations. It’s amusing to see.