---
id: "entity-gartner-d50"
type: "entity"
source_timestamps: ["§ The Capability-Reality Gap"]
tags: ["research-firm", "predictions"]
related: ["claim-flattening-orgs-risk", "contrarian-flattening-is-dangerous"]
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Gartner"
aliases: ["Gartner"]
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-sig-50-adoption-overloading-managers"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/ai-adoption-is-overloading-your-middle-managers"
sourceTitle: "AI Adoption Is Overloading Your Middle Managers"
---
# Gartner

**Gartner** is a research and advisory firm cited in the source for a prediction that in **2026, 20% of organizations will use AI to flatten their structure, eliminating more than half of current middle-management positions**. The authors treat this as the baseline 'flattening' narrative they critique — see [[claim-flattening-orgs-risk]] and [[contrarian-flattening-is-dangerous]].

**Enrichment context.** The specific '20% by 2026' figure should be read as a scenario projection rather than an established fact. Gartner-style forecasts provide the conventional-wisdom position (cost savings and speed from flatter hierarchies) that the article inverts by casting the middle layer as the critical translation point for AI value.


## Related across articles
- [[entity-gartner-d33]]