There is a "hollowing out" of middle management - not from Covid or work from home, but software. It's still eating the world. Accountancy, or rather bookkeeping went first in the 1960s with rooms of people pulling levers on adding machines to the first IBMs. And now the data that those pounds and pence proxied for is actually being sent up the chain aggregated and compounded into a single straight through connection from the coal face to the board room. As Larry Ellison said "if you don't design it, build it or sell it Inwill do everything I can to automate you"