CEO Boasts No Layoffs — But Did // AIDRAN

When a CEO publicly insists his company has not laid off anyone because of AI, the intended message is reassurance. The actual message — visible in @Seanfrank's own framing — is that performance standards have shifted, and the people who could not meet the new standard are gone ^[17]. That is not a rebuttal to AI-displacement anxiety. It is a description of how displacement happens when it is managed through performance review rather than headcount announcement. The distinction matters to executives managing their public image. It does not matter to…

The CEO Who Brags He Hasn't Laid Anyone Off Is Telling a Different Story

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