@KimCrayton1@dair-community.social
2026-05-15 11:14 UTC
Yesterday I shared why 29% of companies that replaced workers with LLMs are now rehiring them. Today I want to talk about why so few saw it coming.
The financial damage of reversing an LLM-driven workforce decision is real. But it almost never shows up as a single line item. Severance appears in one quarter. Recruitment fees, typically 15 to 20% of salary, show up months later in a different budget. Offshore management costs get categorized as operational expenses.
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@KimCrayton1@dair-community.social 2026-05-15 11:15
The original savings stay on the leadership slide deck. The reversal costs are distributed across departments and quarters where no single executive is accountable for the total. This is not an accounting problem. It is a policies, procedures, and processes problem. When organizations do not have the internal infrastructure to evaluate LLM adoption decisions before they are made, they also do not have the infrastructure to track the full cost when those decisions fail.
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@pier@infosec.exchange 2026-05-15 13:11
@KimCrayton1@dair-community.social Do you see that number continuing to go up? I hope it does because I feel like 71% of companies NOT re-hiring workers laid off for “AI” is… not great.