Flattening makes the vertical path faster even if the company has already optimized there, for instance, if 5% of someone work requires approval, and this person produces 50% more in a day, the 5% to be approved is suddenly way larger, this is one of the over-efficiency side effect that caught my attention.

But it does not remove the horizontal coordination that high-stakes changes require (legal, finance, security, etc), so in a sense I agree, it doesn't totally cure decision making DDoS, but it helps.

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The COVID analogy is interesting, so your assumption is that companies will struggle to make profit because they'll operate changes to handle over-efficiency and these would lead to high financial losses?

Not exactly, there is a risk that instead of being collectively able to re skill the workforce we end up with massive layoffs and unemployment of young professionnals, what is currently happening.

So I wonder could decisions be taken by officials to block layoffs in a kind of economic lockdown (similar to covid) to give time to adapt. Like "everybody freeze" we need people working no matter how fast things can move with AI because we fail to adapt as fast as the efficiency gains. Thats science fiction.

And also what about, from a worker's pov, all these efficiency gains. More time for myself or for the company, if companies fails to harvest these workforce pools its both a failure for the company and the worker.