For consulting firms, shredding season is coming: It’s time to take AI and cut the fat.

As companies embed AI agents into their workflows, consultants are exploring how it can be used to flatten management layers — helping leaders oversee increasingly wider teams.

McKinsey & Company senior partner Alexis Krivkovich said there’s “real hope” that AI can help companies streamline their organizational structures during a recent episode of “The McKinsey Podcast.”

AI has equipped leaders with “more of a superhuman capacity to manage across bigger scopes, which would allow companies to flatten their structure and get faster in the process,” she said.

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