Post #2549211 · Elektrine

2026-05-14 11:15 UTC

Twenty-nine percent of companies that laid off workers after implementing LLMs have already rehired them. More than half did so within six months. One in three spent more on restaffing than they ever saved from the original cuts. This is not a technology story. This is an organizational infrastructure story. And once again, nuance gets forced into binaries. Good/Bad Right/Wrong Should/Shouldn&#39;t

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@KimCrayton1@dair-community.social 2026-05-14 11:16

The companies now quietly bringing workers back are the same ones that made workforce decisions without policies, procedures, and processes in place to evaluate what they were actually cutting. They mapped LLMs against job titles, not against tasks. They measured efficiency, not outcomes. They celebrated the savings in one quarter and absorbed the reversal costs across three others, in different budget lines, with no single executive accountable for the total.

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@numodular@c.im 2026-05-14 12:18

@KimCrayton1@dair-community.social There is, of course, an inverse proportion to #TechBros bankrupting global economies of scale.

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@nosrednayduj@hachyderm.io 2026-05-14 14:26

@KimCrayton1@dair-community.social I kind of expected to be rehired 2 months after my layoff but it didn't happen. I had a lot of institutional knowledge, but I guess they and their chatbots figured out how to make a release without me! I actually texted my boss and inquired, and he told me who was doing the work, and they actually are very competent so I guess I was in fact redundant!

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