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Bosses Fired Workers for AI, It Flopped, Now They're Quietly Rehiring

Bosses fired workers for AI, the AI flopped, and now they are quietly rehiring at a loss.

The boss fired you, handed your desk to a chatbot, and now slides into your inbox with a sheepish offer to come back. Reporting gathered by TechSpot lays out the layoff boomerang in full swing, with staffing firm Robert Half counting roughly 29 percent of surveyed employers rehiring for the very roles they had just cut, and Forrester forecasting about half of all AI-blamed layoffs get quietly reversed. Treat the survey figures as the firms’ own homework, graded by the firms, yet the shape holds: executives torched working teams on a vendor’s promise, the promise collapsed, and the cleanup bill lands on everyone. Read TechSpot on the AI layoff boomerang.

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