IBM laid off 8,000 employees to replace them with AI, but what they didn’t expect was having to rehire as many due to AI.

In 2023, IBM made its mark by announcing the redundancy of almost 8,000 employees, mainly in human resources, to automate these functions using artificial intelligence. But against all odds, this strategy led to a wave of new hires… again…

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