Toyota's Kaizen Rule Sparks Debate: No Layoffs After AI Gains

A widely shared argument invokes Toyota's Kaizen rule: never lay off staff after efficiency gains, or workers will stop proposing improvements—an insight applied to AI adoption, warning that layoffs after AI-driven gains would kill employee initiative.

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