This whole trend goes back a long way, before the coronavirus crisis. Specifically, a pioneering experiment was that of Tony Hsieh and his Holacrazay application, within his online shoe sales start-up Zappos, in which, together with Brian J. Robertson, they proposed a theory that consisted of turning each worker into a leader, allowing them maximum agility and flexibility, and leaving behind the classic vertical hierarchical structure, for a new, completely horizontal structure.
This initiative, in which the concept prevails that power belongs to everyone, and therefore there are no commands or defined jobs, also had other prominent followers, such as Morning Star, GitHub or Vavle Corp, and more recently the law firm Law Square of Australia, which has left behind nomenclatures and roles, which bets on the contributions of each worker, beyond the position they may hold.
Perhaps these models are excessively transgressive, and the current job market is not yet ready for experiences of this type, but it is clear that due to the coronavirus and the implementation of teleworking, models are changing, and the idea of a traditional boss who is only dedicated to controlling the work of the staff is being left behind.
Currently, there is a tendency towards models in which there are ultimately responsible bosses who set the main business policies to be followed, but in teleworking there is a greater focus on the contributions to each person's projects, and also on their responsibility when it comes to meeting objectives.