1.   Companies are flattening management hierarchies and erasing the operational separation between managers and workers.

2.   Hence participatory organizations find that they must eliminate layers and flatten their hierarchies.

3.   I go into meetings now and the old hierarchy is flattened.

4.   -- In business, electronic mail and the sharing of electronic documents have flattened hierarchies and given lower-level employees access to information previously the purview of managers.

5.   All over the world, companies, and even some governments, are flattening hierarchies and struggling to deburocratize.

6.   The corporate world has flattened hierarchies, eliminated support staff and made much greater use of contractors and other temporary employees.