Big Tech’s Flip-Flop, Volkswagen’s Reckoning | Paper Cut

Podcast: The EBN Dispatch · Employer Branding News (EBN)

Opublikowano: 2026-07-12

Big Tech stopped hiding behind euphemisms on AI layoffs this week and flip-flopped on its own story, the labour participation drop finally got a number nobody can explain, and Volkswagen is weighing 100,000 job cuts as its old headcount math stops working. This week's Paper Cut covers: Microsoft and Xbox naming AI displacement directly in layoff announcements, and the irony of the Fed appointing a CEO who just cut thousands to lead its jobs task force; the 61.5% labour force participation figure and the economist disagreement underneath it; a rare wrongful termination win against Atlassian alongside a troubling...