The workplace is an especially difficult place for anyone to tell the truth, because no matter how flat we want our organizations to be, all organizations have some form of hierarchy.
Tired of having no work-life balance, many young people in China have adopted the workplace philosophies of 'lying flat' or 'let it rot' (aka doing the bare minimum at work).
You can't exactly replicate something that is three dimensional, like our planet, on a flat piece of paper, because paper has only two dimensions, and that means there'll always be a certain degree of distortion on a map.