Seems to me that the "corporate style" and all that goes with it is infiltrating every area of our lives.
I can't help thinking that this is quite an evil process.
One wonders what happens when the managers have achieved their goal, and the only employees of any given organisation are software gurus, beancounters, and HR.
They're doing it to pilots, and have been for a while; it seems a logical step to progress the devaluation of a profession into other groups who are seen as specialist or overpaid.