[IShotTheSherrif]

Job losses are being fueled by cost cutting, not realized business transformation. There are early indicators of massive productivity gains in certain roles, coupled with a pervasive belief that the technology is advancing at a rate that means we must all evolve to survive in this new landscape, both people and organizations.

Executive teams are under pressure to cut costs now to fund AI investment and capture efficiencies they believe competitors are already realizing, fueled by an echo chamber that inflates small AI advancements (relative to impact) into evidence of sweeping transformation. My gut says offshore is benefiting from, and accelerating through, this transition because it remains the most familiar and defensible path to immediate cost cutting for most organizations.