"Too Many People, Not Enough Work" — While the Company Runs Four AI Projects
914paul · reddit · 2026-09-10
An employee describes being told the company has 'too many people and not enough work getting done' — while four separate AI projects are underway. The poster reads between the lines: the 'extra' people are being squeezed to transfer their knowledge into AI systems on top of their day jobs.
The thread captures a real tension in enterprise AI adoption: transformation framed as efficiency, but experienced as unpaid knowledge-extraction labor, with commenters debating whether it signals looming layoffs.
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