Middle Managers Drive Drop in US Employee Confidence to New Low

Confidence among middle-managers dropped to its worst-ever reading in February, pushing a broader index of US employee sentiment down to a record low.

“Middle managers are under pressure to do more with less,” Glassdoor economist Daniel Zhao said in a report Monday. The group’s confidence is now similar to that of entry-level workers, which fell last month to the lowest in seven years, the job-review site’s Employee Confidence Index showed.

Across all ranks, employee confidence fell to 45.1%, the lowest in data back to 2016.

One anonymous mid-level employee review said that when they left the firm last year, ...