Have you seen the new HR Playbook for AI?
It’s being written now. Most of us just don’t realize it.
Square. Oracle. Meta. Snap.
Cryptic emails. Calendar invites with no title. Three-minute Zoom calls. That’s how Better.com cut 900 people. The pattern hasn’t changed.
In 2025, AI was cited in 55,000 planned layoffs.
Leaders who can’t handle a hard conversation today will be first to hand it to an agent tomorrow.
Whatever dignity we strip out of the process now, we’re teaching the systems to strip out at scale.
Reducing headcount can be a real business decision. How we treat people on the way out is leadership.
People will remember who hid behind it.
How we show up is 100% on us.
Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.
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