Is middle management in organizations finally dead?
- sciart0
- Aug 1
- 1 min read
Excerpt: Everyone’s obsessing over whether AI will steal their jobs.
They’re asking the wrong question.
While headlines scream about AI replacing workers—41% of employers are planning to downsize, half of entry-level jobs are vanishing—they’re missing the real transformation. The question isn’t who gets replaced. It’s what happens to everyone who remains.
Here’s the contrarian truth: AI isn’t just eliminating jobs. It’s eliminating the entire concept of traditional management. And that may be the best thing that could happen to your career.
THE GREAT FLATTENING
Middle management exists primarily for one reason: to be human routers of information. Managers aggregate data from below, filter it, and pass it upward. They take strategy from above, translate it, and cascade it downward.
They’re essentially organizational middleware.