It seems to be the same in every company. Layer upon layer of managers and supervisors that don't actually DO anything.
Companies would be so much more efficiently run without them, so what causes this?
EDIT: I think I might have something of an answer here thanks for @ABigguhPizzahPieh 's comment/video they posted. So, the notion of "robots are going to take our jobs" has actually already happened, and it's been happening for decades. There's just not enough work to go around for everyone. But reducing the work week from 40 hours is obviously unconscionable in capitalism, because working people aren't allowed to have nice things or better lives, so instead there has grown a massive layer of managerial and clerical type "workers" who are paid to do nothing for 40 hours a week and are miserable for it.
IMO Its the carrot for the worker, give a person who is completely alienated from the power of their labor a small slice of the power pie within a vertical power structure and razzle dazzle with salary & other perks. And thus you have the carrot of a "career path" to counter the stick of at-will employment.