00:00 — Introduction
00:05 — The Do-More-With-Less Machine
00:05 — Wrap Up
Sources:
- Meta stock climbs nearly 3% on report of planned layoffs to offset AI spending (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/meta-ai-costs-mass-layoffs-20percent-up-premarket.html
- Companies Are Laying Off Workers Because of AI's Potential, Not Its Performance (Harvard Business Review): https://hbr.org/2026/01/companies-are-laying-off-workers-because-of-ais-potential-not-its-performance
- AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction, Oxford Economics suggests (Fortune): https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/ai-layoffs-convenient-corporate-fiction-true-false-oxford-economics-productivity/
- AI-washing and forever layoffs: Why companies keep cutting jobs, even amid rising profits (Fortune): https://fortune.com/2026/02/10/ai-washing-and-forever-layoffs-why-companies-keep-cutting-jobs-even-amid-rising-profits/
- The AI layoff trap: Why half will be quietly rehired (HR Executive): https://hrexecutive.com/the-ai-layoff-trap-why-half-will-be-quietly-rehired/
- More companies are pointing to AI as they lay off employees (CBS News): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-layoffs-2026-artificial-intelligence-amazon-pinterest/
- AI isn't causing a jobs-pocalypse. At least, not yet (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/business/ai-tech-jobs-layoffs
- Tech companies are blaming massive layoffs on AI. What's really going on? (The Conversation / TechXplore): https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-tech-companies-blaming-massive-layoffs.html
- Klarna CEO admits aggressive AI job cuts went too far (MLQ.ai): https://mlq.ai/news/klarna-ceo-admits-aggressive-ai-job-cuts-went-too-far-starts-hiring-again-after-us-ipo/
- Klarna Is Hiring Customer Service Agents After AI Couldn't Cut It (Entrepreneur): https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/klarna-ceo-reverses-course-by-hiring-more-humans-not-ai/491396
- Companies backtrack after going all in on AI (Information Age): https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/companies-backtrack-after-going-all-in-on-ai.html
- US employee engagement falls to 10-year low (HR Dive): https://www.hrdive.com/news/us-employee-engagement-falls-to-10-year-low/737270/
- Gallup 2025 State of the Global Workplace (Gallup): https://www.gallup.com/workplace/702881/women-show-stronger-employee-engagement-amid-higher-burnout.aspx
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