As both an engineer in my early days in the 60s and latterly as a radio producer till retirement in the late 80s I was used to closer supervision of my work and certainly there was usually some management presence at the receiving end. I noticed after retirement when all the business of sound levels was being discussed for instance that there was no indication that upper management was actually listening to the output and the subsequent dreadful revelations about broken chains of command and devolved editorial control made it clear that the new order was desperately short in the 'hands on' department both technically and editorially. There was never a time when my manager was not listening because he was 'out'!
It is a great shame that so many talented and hard working present day staff have been let down by 'business management' regimes which sound more like the way banks are run than broadcasting should be.

What an excellent piece of journalism! [Thanks for the link.]
And really what many of the troops have advocated for years - Give them a sense of 'belonging' again.