AI Reshapes Corporate Structures and Hollows Out Management, Report Says

Artificial intelligence is rapidly restructuring the global job market, hollowing out corporate middle management and shifting the employment landscape toward flexible, human-machine collaboration, according to industry leaders and academics gathered at Tsinghua University.

At a June 17 conference launching a new report on skill trends in the AI era — hosted collaboratively by recruitment platform Tongdao Liepin and Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management — experts warned that AI is no longer a simple technological add-on but an exponential force redefining business models and the nature of work itself.