You may have noticed that middle managers' jobs are disappearing . Major employers — ranging from Amazon and Meta to companies like Walmart , UPS , and Estée Lauder — have made headlines in the post-Covid era for cutting layers of middle management in pursuit of greater efficiency . The trend is sometimes referred to as the " Great Flattening ." But if you asked one CEO — Bill Anderson of German life sciences giant Bayer , which is best known for inventing aspirin — he might tell you that those