◆ Emerald Pages ◆ feature / economy The Great AI Boomerang: Google, Meta, Klarna & More Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Fired Emerald Book Publication May 31, 2026 8 min read 29% of firms have already rehired for AI-cut roles, while 55% of executives regret replacing workers with AI. From Big Tech to fast
Yeah, for layoffs and other issues in a company that caused or threatened stability, I can’t imagine why you’d go back knowing what happened. Even if conditions change, there is still that history and potential for problems again. Fool me once…
People often don’t have a choice, which is precisely why AI was pushed in the first place, in the end after the dust settled the people at the top don’t really care if AI worked or not, they just care that it convinced society that programmers weren’t a profession worthy of a quality of life where you can raise a family.
People need jobs, every day people are forced to take shitty jobs back, but this time programmers get to experience what getting hired back by a business after a cultural imprint in the business mindset has pervaded that all of the human programmers are “temporary” but in an indefinite sense…
Unionize
Unionize in alternate companies, perhaps.
Yeah, for layoffs and other issues in a company that caused or threatened stability, I can’t imagine why you’d go back knowing what happened. Even if conditions change, there is still that history and potential for problems again. Fool me once…
People often don’t have a choice, which is precisely why AI was pushed in the first place, in the end after the dust settled the people at the top don’t really care if AI worked or not, they just care that it convinced society that programmers weren’t a profession worthy of a quality of life where you can raise a family.
People need jobs, every day people are forced to take shitty jobs back, but this time programmers get to experience what getting hired back by a business after a cultural imprint in the business mindset has pervaded that all of the human programmers are “temporary” but in an indefinite sense…
Welcome to the blue collar world, fools!