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With generative AI making a huge impact in different walks of life, the technology has long been poised to make significant changes to how organizations work. A top Microsoft executive has now predicted that the technology could lead to the end of hierarchies inside companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Microsoft’s AI Platform Product Lead Asha Sharma, in an episode of Lenny’s Podcast, said, \u201cI think the whole kind of organizational construct might start to look different in a few years, so I am pretty excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThe org chart starts to become the work chart. I think that tasks and throughput become more important than they have been before. I also think that you just don’t need as many layers,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI think in the future work will look really different,\u201d Sharma added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd I think at the end of the day, when you have a set of capable agents, and people are capable of more things, you’re not going to start to think in hierarchy and communicating upwards and start to figure out, like kind of outward, task-based type of opportunities,\u201d Sharma further stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sharma also noted that employees will be able to expand their skill set by bringing their own \u201cagent stack\u201d to work, similar to how they bring their own devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“You can start to have access to a set of skills that you never had before,” she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Most Big Tech companies are developing their own AI agents, though it isn’t clear how this is impacting the workflow at this point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
However, since last year there have been many job cuts at the top tech companies. For instance, reports claimed that the layoffs of around 6,000 employees by Microsoft<\/a> this year was linked to reducing layers of management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Meanwhile, a recent CNBC report revealed that Google has eliminated around 35 percent of its managers who were overseeing small teams in order to reduce bureaucracy and drive efficiency within the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n