[10 AUG] PAPER CUT: Stall Speed, Fast Cuts, Frayed Trust

Jobs slow to a crawl while automation speeds up. Leaders promise calm. Workers see whiplash.

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Close-up of scissors poised to slice a glowing network of nodes on a purple background, representing AI-driven job cuts and the fragile ties inside organizations.
Cutting costs by cutting connections. Trust goes with it.

The US jobs engine just coughed. At the same time, AI job cuts tick up and one ex-Google exec is predicting the end of white-collar work by 2027. Neat story, except many firms now pay humans to fix the “savings” their bots created.

This week, we track four currents: a cooling labor market colliding with hot automation, leadership messages that strain credibility, the office control push that ignores what actually lifts performance, and a quiet reshaping of work through freelancers and new norms.

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