r/ITManagers

72k members
r/ITManagers is a subreddit with 72k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses it, ai, management, struggling, and looking for, and they frequently recommend/review ticketing system, management software, and helpdesk.

Popular Themes in r/ITManagers

#1
Solution Requests
: "Moving from Office 365 to Other"
36 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How do you deal with a CIO that wants to outsource everything and refuses to listen?"
24 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "My company is forcing me to install an invasive PC monitoring system (Time Doctor) without employees knowledge. I do not support this toxicity but I'm not in a position to quit- what do I do?"
5 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "Replacing IT support with IT automation engineers"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/ITManagers

#1

It

: "It Director pay scale"
60 posts
#2

Ai

: "Shadow Ai is the new Shadow IT. Except nobody's even pretending to care."
23 posts
#3

Management

: "8 years in IT, keep getting passed over for Management and the feedback is always vague"
19 posts
#4

Struggling

17 posts
#5

Looking For

15 posts
#6

Security

: "How do you even pick a Security awareness training vendor without losing your mind?"
15 posts
#7

For A

14 posts
#8

Looking

14 posts
#9

Job

7 posts
#10

It Management

: "Been managing IT for almost 4 years and seriously questioning if this is for me"
7 posts

Products Discussed in r/ITManagers

#1
Freshdesk
4.5 from 4 reviews
#2
Freshservice
4.5 from 2 reviews
#3
Zendesk
4.0 from 2 reviews
#1
ManageEngine
3.7 from 3 reviews
#2
GLPI
4.7 from 3 reviews
#3
Lansweeper
4.0 from 2 reviews

Helpdesk

15 reviews
#1
ServiceNow
4.0 from 2 reviews
#2
Jira Service Desk
4.5 from 2 reviews
#3
Spiceworks
4.0 from 2 reviews

Flair Used in r/ITManagers

#1
Advice
: "My company is forcing me to install an invasive PC monitoring system (Time Doctor) without employees knowledge. I do not support this toxicity but I'm not in a position to quit- what do I do?"
32 posts
#2
Question
: "What level of technical depth do you really need as an IT manager"
20 posts
#3
Recommendation
: "Mass text messaging notification to employees"
9 posts
#4
Opinion
: "No longer admin after our company acquired by bigger firm."
7 posts
#5
Support
: "pushed unified vuln dashboard with live criticals to public github repo. team is melting down"
2 posts
#6
News
: "I built a free toolkit site for IT pros and field techs"
1 post

Member Growth in r/ITManagers

Yearly
+27k members(59.3%)

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Last updated: June 4, 2026