Breakfast Bite: How to ease the squeeze on your middle managers in 2025

As the first real working weeks of 2025 get underway, we’ve been looking at what lies ahead – and how we can prepare for it.?

According to Forbes ‘A dichotomy exists within the workforce in 2025: as the number of management roles shrinks, the workload for mid-level managers is increasing.’ In other words, middle managers will find themselves under unprecedented pressure from all sides.

The result? Fortune predicts a middle manager crash in 2025 as they’re brought to breaking point by lack of support. This diminished wellbeing and performance won’t take long to trickle down.

The time to head this off is now.

Five things suffocating your middle managers

We’re asking a lot of them. Here are the top five places we believe they’ll be feeling the squeeze:

• Between the demands of upper management, reports and clients.
• Between talent gaps and budgets.
• Between acquiring new skills and training and development budgets.
• Between existing culture and the requirements of the up-and-coming workforce.
• Between AI/tech and human focus.

We’ve got you covered

Stay tuned as over the coming months, we’ll be putting together a series of expert-led articles on how to close the gap between what you have now and what will be required. Covering everything from the policies you need in place to how to spot knowledge and support voids, we’ll look at how you can stay confidently ahead of the curve.

And it’s not just about your middle managers

The whole picture is evolving – from career pathways and frameworks to HR responsibilities and leadership development. Not to mention the pressures of implementing the Employment Rights Bill and its impact on things like working conditions, leave and safeguarding.

For now, there’s a wealth of free information and guidance in the Jarred Think Tank and if you’d like more personalised advice, we’re here if you need to talk.

Let’s make 2025 the best one yet by doing right by our people.