Goldman Sachs survey says only 11% of companies are actively linking layoffs to AI—but the real shock is yet to come
https://fortune.com/2025/10/30/goldman-sachs-survey-says-only-11-of-companies-are-actively-linking-layoffs-to-ai-but-the-real-shock-is-yet-to-come/
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From the article
While the latest wave of AI-linked layoffs has put job seekers—and even the Federal Reserve—on high alert, a new survey from Goldman Sachs suggests the real AI labor meltdown is still to come
“Reddit article generated by AI to keep doom and gloom going constantly releases words about a bleak future over and over again to stoke fear and get more clicks with zero empirical proof and tons of you’ll see”
Fixed it for you.
Amazingly the companies claiming to replace people with AI requested many visas: [https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub](https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub)
Meme headlines
“CEOs Claim AI Replaced Workers, HR Quietly Admits AI’s Name Is ‘Raj From Bangalore’”
“Companies Praise Automation Breakthrough, Reveal Robots Need Visas and Eat Lunch”
“U.S. Firms Replace Americans With ‘AI,’ AI Suspiciously Has Social Security Number”
“H-1B Crackdown Reshapes Jobs Market, Executives Forced To Admit AI Was Just Cheaper Humans”
“Stock Prices Soar After Companies Replace Costly Americans With Allegedly Robotic Employees”
“Tech Leaders Tout AI Efficiency, Software Engineer ‘AI’ Caught In Break Room on Phone”
“Corporations Blame AI for Layoffs, Won’t Explain AI’s Need for Health Insurance”
“Firms Claim Jobs Lost to Automation, Newly Jobless Americans Notice Automation Has Apartment Near Campus”
“Tech Execs Swear AI Took the Jobs, Reveal AI Is Actually Ravi and He Starts Monday”
“H-1B Crackdown Forces CEOs to Admit They Lied About Inventing Robo-Employees”
“Automation Gets All the Credit While H-1B Workers Do All the Automating”
“Bosses Replace Americans With ‘AI,’ Robots Somehow Have College Degrees From Mumbai”
“AI Revolution Continues: Corporations Replace Staff With Humans Who Cost Less”
“Silicon Valley Says Machines Will Rule World, But Only If Their Visas Get Approved”
“Productivity Soars After Workforce Digitally Reclassified As ‘Bots’”
“New Policy Uncovers Shocking Truth: AI Looks an Awful Lot Like Immigrant Labor”
What really sucks is we don’t know how we are being manipulated.
Like you see a string of articles pushing a particular message, and you have no idea how much of it is actually true, or how much of it is just pushing an agenda.
AI is evil campaign paid for by…
Boom. You get tons of people arguing about how much they hate the AI Boogeyman.
I would imagine often the message doesn’t even matter. It’s just to agitate people to post.
Or it’s the same nonsense as when the internet was going to kill all jobs, or the computer, or the steam engine
I think AI layoffs is very real lot of ppl under estimate it. Its caused by human greed how many ppl are investing in AI stocks. The whole society is profit driven
Yeah and 81% of companies are likely lying about it.
I never bought into the “AI layoffs”. Something else is going on and it’s probably just boring. AI hate is the new fad
For the last time….when you fire all the humans who’s buying the products & services you’re selling?
According to Goldman the coming “shock” lies in the long-term displacement potential for white-collar roles.
Not sure why that is shocking beyond execs suddenly realizing that AI is coming for them now too?