This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he'd do it again

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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he'd do it again

https://fortune.com/article/ceo-laid-off-80-percent-workforce-sabotage-what-are-ai-skills/Open link View original on lemmy.world

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reddig33

lemmy.world

I read somewhere that AI is just a cover story/excuse for these layoffs.

If not, then this dude (or his replacement) will be having to re-hire a lot of these people when they finally figure out that over-hyped pattern matching software can’t actually replace employees.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

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lemmy.world

OPs article was posted in another community and a poster there linked another article about this company. Apparently the whole "we're replacing people with AI minded people" was a sham and in fact it was just a Private Equity company masking their offshoring of most of the jobs.