Layoffs

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

2026-05-25 · TechCrunch

ClickUp decided that hundreds of human employees were just too expensive and inefficient, so they're replacing them with thousands of AI agents. Nothing says 'the future of work' quite like a startup firing real people to hire bots that probably can't even use their own project management tool properly. At least the AI agents won't complain about the pizza parties.

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