> Even if you fire 50% of your employees, realize it was a terrible mistake, and hire most of them back, it's a net reduction in payroll costs.

This is inane. If an employer hired most of these employees back it means that firing them negatively impacted the bottom line.

It just means they bought the hype and thought they could actually use AI to fire people. Many companies try to do it, and I don't know how many it works for.

But I do know that companies fire people and stay short-staffed just to keep payroll down all the time. Even when externally that seems like a terrible idea, and likely impacts bottom line. It's important to realize just how much companies hate payroll. And AI is a great way to try to reduce it.