AI-driven layoffs could erase tacit knowledge and damage companies later
curious_vii · x · 2026-07-23
The post warns that if CEOs push through large layoffs because of what the author calls an “AI psychosis” category error, the real cost will come later.
Its key argument is that off-book tacit knowledge and relationship-based know-how will be destroyed, and that loss is hard to recover once organizations cut too deeply.
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