How much of these layoffs are really due to AI and how much are do the usual reasons – inefficiency, bad management: Lufthansa to cut 4,000 jobs, turns to AI to boost efficiency
AI might be a scape goat – take a look at this gobbledygook explanation:
More recently, tech consultancy Accenture also shared plans to exit staff who can’t be retrained to use AI, CEO Julie Sweet said in a call last week.
“We are investing in upskilling our reinventors, which is our primary strategy,” Sweet said, adding that the company is “exiting on a compression timeline” people for whom reskilling isn’t a “viable path.”
