https://seunghoonchoi.com/tags/headcount-cuts/Recent content in Headcount Cuts on Seunghoon ChoiHugoen-USSun, 21 Jun 2026 17:56:30 +0900https://seunghoonchoi.com/column/ai-headcount-mistake/Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:56:30 +0900https://seunghoonchoi.com/column/ai-headcount-mistake/<p><img src="https://seunghoonchoi.com/images/col-ai-headcount-mistake.jpg" alt="Empty chairs lined up at desks in an office lit by morning sun"></p> <p class="inline-image-caption">When a desk becomes empty, payroll costs fall, but the company may also lose the work context that person knew.</p> <p>When a company adopts AI tools, one sentence almost always appears: &ldquo;So how many people can we cut now?&rdquo; On the surface, it sounds reasonable. AI writes reports, organizes minutes, researches material, writes code, and drafts plans. Some work is genuinely faster than humans.</p>