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Gartner studied 350 executives at billion-dollar companies. Eighty percent had cut staff for AI. None of it correlated with higher returns. Goldman Sachs found the stock bounce is gone. Forrester predicted half of all AI-attributed layoffs would be reversed by 2027. The data is in, and it says the same thing from every angle: the cuts were theater.
Research related to this podcast is cited in the Sunday, May 17, 2026 issue of The Recruiting Life Newsletter.
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By Jim Stroud5
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Gartner studied 350 executives at billion-dollar companies. Eighty percent had cut staff for AI. None of it correlated with higher returns. Goldman Sachs found the stock bounce is gone. Forrester predicted half of all AI-attributed layoffs would be reversed by 2027. The data is in, and it says the same thing from every angle: the cuts were theater.
Research related to this podcast is cited in the Sunday, May 17, 2026 issue of The Recruiting Life Newsletter.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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