AI Layoffs Are Not A Workforce Strategy : Why Cutting People Is Not the Same as Redesigning Work
Overview
AI-driven layoffs may reduce costs, but they do not automatically create a better organization. AI Layoffs Are Not a Workforce Strategy is a practical workplace clarity book for leaders, managers, HR partners, and change practitioners navigating AI-era restructuring pressure. Artemis Ellis challenges the assumption that cutting headcount is the same as redesigning work-and shows why organizations can become smaller while also becoming more fragile. Using the RESET framework-Reality, Essential Work, Skills, Execution Design, and Transition Risk-this book helps readers ask better questions before workforce decisions create hidden damage. Inside, readers will explore: * Why layoffs are an event, not a strategy
* Why AI does not absorb work by announcement
* How invisible work, tacit knowledge, and customer trust get underestimated
* Why survivors inherit operational, emotional, and decision burden
* How decision rights, reskilling, governance, and transition planning shape outcomes
* Why organizations must measure more than cost savings This is not an anti-AI book. It is not an anti-efficiency book. It is a clear-eyed guide to making smarter workforce decisions when technology, cost pressure, and organizational uncertainty collide. Because cutting people is not the same as redesigning work.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798185650110
- ISBN-10: 9798185650110
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: July 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.85 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.91 pounds
- Page Count: 342
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