”AI-Washing”: Why Most Layoffs Blamed on AI Aren’t

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

Opublikowano: 2026-08-30

Fei Zhaojun's boss asked if AI could replace coders. Two weeks later, he and 160 colleagues were laid off in Beijing. But a new HBR analysis, citing Goldman Sachs, argues most layoffs blamed on AI this year aren't actually AI's doing. Plus: Reed Hastings on why companies aren't families, Disney's early retirement memo, and why the graduate job market just hit its lowest point in a decade. This week on Paper Cut: - The Goldman Sachs number that undercuts most "AI layoff" headlines - A...