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Tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass job cuts. Why?
Leaders are increasingly adopting productivity tools that enable them to accomplish the same work with fewer employees, according to Anne Hoecker, a partner at Bain. This shift in approach is reflected in recent job cuts, which may indicate a change in the narrative around the need for large workforces. As a result, companies are now seeing "step changes" in productivity with fewer personnel.
"Some of it is that the narrative is changing, some of it is that we really are starting to see step changes in productivity," Anne Hoecker, a partner at Bain who leads the consultancy's technology practice, says of the recent job cuts. "Leaders more recently are seeing these tools are good enough that you really can do the same amount of work with fundamentally less people."
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