“Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract—laying off employees, rehiring them at lower wages, intensifying workloads, and normalizing precarity.”
– Researcher
Sophie Bandarkar, on the larger anti-worker agenda behind recent tech layoffs. “These firings are not driven by financial strain or genuine automation-related pressure,” Bandarkar argues, ”but by a strategic choice to restructure contracts and weaken the position of labour.” In short: “AI is not the cause of the layoffs but their justification.”
