Tech CEOs increasingly boast about AI-driven layoffs as a strategy to signal to investors their commitment to cutting costs and boosting share prices, even at the expense of employee morale. This shift toward a more aggressive, performative language around workforce reductions reflects a power imbalance where executives prioritize market performance over employee wellbeing, contributing to a culture that normalizes and even celebrates job cuts enabled by automation.
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