[13 JUL] PAPER CUT: Robots, Restlessness and Remote Reality

AI reversals. Office tug-of-war. Gen Z burnout. This week we sift hype from hard data to ask: when the talent tide turns, who’s still left standing?

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A robotic finger presses one end of a wooden seesaw while the opposite end rises under growing stacks of money, symbolising how cost-cutting automation can inflate expenses instead.
AI cost-cutting comes cheap, until automation whiplash sends the bill.

The headlines keep swinging between techno-euphoria and talent scarcity. One minute boards are bragging about “full-stack AI”, the next they’re rehiring the humans they dumped. Meanwhile, return-to-office edicts collide with employees who’ve tasted autonomy, and Gen Z is already flirting with “micro-retirement”.

This edition slices through the noise in four moves: (1) the true cost of sacking staff for chatbots, (2) remote work’s latest plot twist, (3) why the youngest cohort is running on empty, and (4) the brand battle for scarce skills amid a cooling jobs market.

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