Large corporations are full of middle-managers who do not lead anything nor produce anything (customer facing) and whose only job is to "facilitate information flow" and "pull teams together" etc. I think these roles will be replaced with AI chatbots quickly. The upside (for the company) ought to be that now the facilitation should happen very quickly and is measurable/manageable more directly. The downside (for the line employees) is that now your boss is a chatbot.
How do we know that it's these types of managers who will be replaced, instead of the ones doing the actual work?
Perhaps some companies do deeper analysis first - with AI summarizing & clustering signals from various internal systems and corporate email history. I'm not saying that this is better for everyone compared to current human-driven approaches, but the human driven approaches seem to be just about stack-ranking employees by their recent performance review ratings and drawing a red line in a spreadsheet. Amazon's recent "flattening the organization" initiative might well be using AI as one of the signals. I have no idea whether that's actually true - but then again it's 2025 and they have been a data-driven company for a long time.