Employers are quietly rehiring the people AI replaced, and paying them less to come back

Forrester reports that 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI and expects half of AI-attributed layoffs to be quietly reversed, with jobs returning offshore or at significantly lower wages. In Europe, a revised directive will require consultation before such decisions, backed by financial penalties.

The companies that cut jobs for AI are having second thoughts. Forrester reports that 55% of employers regret laying workers off for AI, and expects half of all AI-attributed layoffs to be quietly reversed.

That reversal is not the happy ending it sounds like. Forrester says the jobs come back offshore or at significantly lower wages, which means the correction costs the worker rather than the employer.

The fear has not moved with the evidence. A Reuters Ipsos poll found 53% of Americans worry AI will put someone in their household out of work, and TNW has asked what AI is doingto...

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