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>People like Marc Benioff claiming that "today's CEOs are the last to manage all-human workforces"

This is the real problem. Companies have ALREADY starting laying off significant percentages of their workforce because they're buying into the AI "digital worker" hype without any idea of how exactly AI is going to do the jobs of 80% of THEIR employees across all departments in the next year or so.

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No, they're using that and RTO as an excuse for layoffs. They layoffs were coming inevitably from ZIRP going away. If you were a CEO and looking at that balance sheet would you tell investors "we need to shed workforce because we can't be profitable" or "we can shed workforce because we're cutting edge". Stop listening to CEOs whose literal job it is to make their company look good under any and all circumstances and start looking at SEC filing numbers.

This part. Companies love a smokescreen when they need to tighten their belts.

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