AWS is a non-hierarchical, consensus-based organization. What does that really mean?
We’re an organization founded on the principle of ending all forms of violence and oppression, and we have integrated this important principle into our organizational structure. AWS has a flat or horizontal staff structure; there is no management team, entourage of assistants, or cleaning/janitorial crew. Every staff member files her own paperwork, cleans her own work area, and creates her own work plan. However, all staff members are accountable to their individual teams, to each other, to the entire agency, and to all of AWS’s constituencies.
