Dunno about the merits of this, but it does seem to be part of the overall effort to rethink how to organize large groups of people working together. With the internet we can afford peer-to-peer communication, and we don't have to organize into hierarchies. But we can't just do full-mesh communication either, because that's overwhelming to individuals, as anyone who lived through the initial slack-and-zoom remote work of early 2020 can tell you. (Though lots of people are still living through it, unfortunately)
So what kind of communication structures are good, and in what circumstances? How do we structure work so that we don't have to communicate about everything? When do we fall back to ad-hoc video chat or even in-person meetings? These are the kinds of questions that 21st-century management has to answer. It's fascinating to watch people grapple with them.
So what kind of communication structures are good, and in what circumstances? How do we structure work so that we don't have to communicate about everything? When do we fall back to ad-hoc video chat or even in-person meetings? These are the kinds of questions that 21st-century management has to answer. It's fascinating to watch people grapple with them.