Company management ranks are thinning out and at an expedited speed in 2025. The data tells the story behind what workplace experts are calling “The Great Flattening.” For starters, U.S. managers are overseeing three times the number of staff they did in 2015, Gartner reported . That number should expand as companies like Google (which recently cut 35% of its small team managers) and Intel (which slashed 50% of its management positions) continue to cut management headcount. Additionally, companies were a ...