The Jassy Ratio (Why 14,000 managers just vanished)
Everyone is misreading the Amazon news.
The most important number in the Amazon restructuring wasn’t 14,000.
While the market obsessed over the headcount, the real signal was buried deep in the internal directive from CEO Andy Jassy. It was a single, non-negotiable metric that changes the physics of the modern corporation.
He demanded a 15% increase in the ratio of individual contributors to managers.
This is the “Jassy Ratio.” And it signals the end of an era we didn’t even realize was closing.
The Death of the Relay Runner
For the last fifty years, the corporate world ran on a simple assumption. You needed people to do the work, and you needed a second layer of people to carry the work.
