IBM laid off 8,000 HR employees!!
Not for budget.
Not for performance.

They got replaced…by a chatbot.

That bot? It’s called AskHR, and it runs on IBM’s own AI engine: Watsonx Orchestrate.

– 94% of HR work, automated
– Pay, vacation, paperwork, even terminations
– $3.5B in…

— Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) July 9, 2025

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.

Except I can’t afford any because I’m jobless, homeless and living in a Frigidaire box. Glorious.