This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "AI Is Shaping Who Stays Employed" (uploaded 2026-04-05) containing an excerpt of a speaker describing planned layoffs at a company doing $500M/year—estimating cuts of roughly 30–35% (around 400–500 people), focused on non-technical, non–AI-native roles as AI influences staffing decisions.
Just recently, this company doing $500 million a year, we're looking at making some pretty drastic cuts. What percent of people are you going to cut? Probably, you know, 30, 35% or so. And these are non-technical people. So they're looking at the non-technical people that aren't AI native and they're going to be cutting. So you have that happening. That for them is probably around, let's call it like 400 or 500 people or so. It's a lot of people.
