> In most cases, the easiest way to tell if you are line or staff is to look at the org chart of your business. You are line if your role makes up the largest fraction of the org chart.
If anything, the opposite is true. You are "line" when you are fewer in number having a more direct line to the power structure. In business, it is this, not your contribution that changes your negotiating leverage. In the original military example, mechanics, doctors, IT staff and dozens of other roles vastly outnumber actual soldiers.
If anything, the opposite is true. You are "line" when you are fewer in number having a more direct line to the power structure. In business, it is this, not your contribution that changes your negotiating leverage. In the original military example, mechanics, doctors, IT staff and dozens of other roles vastly outnumber actual soldiers.