Every large business has a boss and minions, who do most of the work.
What comes between the corner office and the shop floor is a matter of managerial preference.
The fashionable way to organise of late has been the pancake organigram: fewer layers of workers reporting to a smaller cadre of chieftains.
Yet the thinning of managerial ranks comes at great cost, warns our columnist.
Business titans like Elon Musk have painted delayering as a way of improving communication and shedding corporate deadweight. But companies that scrap management tiers tend to find that informal hierarchies take hold instead.
Read why bosslessness is a false Utopia: https://econ.trib.al/Qv3h00s
Illustration: Paul Blow
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