How agentic AI, autonomous operations, and token-based economies will collapse traditional middle management and white-collar coordination layers.
The org chart is about to become obsolete.
Not because companies will stop needing people.
Because companies will stop needing as many people to coordinate the work.
For decades, scaling a company meant scaling management. More employees led to more managers, more coordinators, more meetings, more reporting, and more bureaucracy.
That model made sense when coordination required humans. It makes far less sense when AI agents can coordinate continuously.
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As AI begins to reshape the workplace, the traditional role of "individual contributor" will begin to disappear.
At the micro level, there is evidence that it pays to collapse the layers of command
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