https://thenextweb.com/corona/2020/04/02/how-working-from-home-is-is-demolishing-traditional-office-hierarchies/

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has put the industrialized world on lockdown, closing schools, shuttering stock exchanges, and temporarily turning our world into a containment zone.

With companies everywhere telling employees to work remotely, the need for a manager who “checks on you” has suddenly evaporated.