Reap what they sow. Oh, who am I kidding. Leadership will just blame mid level managers and fire them. They’ll give themselves HUGE Wuhan Virus emergency bonuses. Fact is, most large corps are run by psychopaths.
I personally hope every Executive that made the decision to move operational support to India dies a slow, painful agonizing death.
My experience as a consultant is that mid-level managers are often the lifers who resist all efficiency. Top management outsources to get around the obstacles of mid-level management.
Sears is the alternative. Let the mid-level managers run the company into the ground despite the best plans of those at the top. Currently, IBM risks being the next Sears as mid-level managers seem interested in their own little empires, rather than the health and profit of their company.