Answered from AI Is Pushing Out Top Performers, Here’s Why · A Life Engineered · 2026-10-22
Steve Huynh says he is highly suspicious that many recent layoffs are financial moves, because a company's stock tends to rise when it cuts staff, and that AI also serves as cover for removing low performers who are hard to manage out. His guest draws a 2007 to 2008 parallel, when people suspected external financial conditions were being used to justify layoffs that would look good to the market.
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