Economy and macroUpdated 1h ago

Companies cloak AI-related cuts in jargon.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Jonathan Levin says company managers are using euphemisms more often in the AI era, as technology-enabled staff reductions draw public anger and political pushback. His examples—“efficiency,” “automation” and “delayering”—are broad enough to cover job cuts or hiring freezes without saying either plainly. A separate Arabic report points to warnings of a possible broad layoff wave and to calls for better government data to track it. And “delayering” is a much tidier word than saying people are losing jobs.

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Coverage started November 13