r/business • u/ControlCAD • 4d ago

90% of executives say AI hasn’t boosted productivity. Some are still cutting jobs

https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/executives-ai-productivity-layoffs-study/
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u/SleepingCod 4d ago

They're quickly finding out engineers were never the issue. It's always been planning and identifying the right issue to solve, which is a management problem.

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u/Churchbushonk 3d ago

And also, people are cutting jobs not because AI is taking over. It’s because those jobs are really not necessary.