delayering

delayering
   dismissing employees
   Literally, dispensing with a layer of management in a hierarchical organization:
    These seismic changes effect everyone, but the most vulnerable are older people, ambushed in mid-career by strategies that mask their true intent under such euphemisms as 'right-sizing' and 'delayering'. {Telegraph Magazine, 1 July 1995)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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