Pretty common upper management mindset, “Once something is done, its done forever and needs no specialized experience to maintain. So anybody can do it, even young inexperienced newly hired will be able to figure out how to take care of everything without any senior staff around to help them.”
In some cases it’s not even young/inexperienced new hires, just that in a project of any complexity, understanding all/as many as possible of the moving pieces that make it tick becomes more important than just experience or skill. So they hire a few really experienced people to throw at the problem, and manage the young/inexperienced, and they struggle and burn out too
Pretty common upper management mindset, “Once something is done, its done forever and needs no specialized experience to maintain. So anybody can do it, even young inexperienced newly hired will be able to figure out how to take care of everything without any senior staff around to help them.”
In some cases it’s not even young/inexperienced new hires, just that in a project of any complexity, understanding all/as many as possible of the moving pieces that make it tick becomes more important than just experience or skill. So they hire a few really experienced people to throw at the problem, and manage the young/inexperienced, and they struggle and burn out too