This story of Google reorganizing its 30,000 strong ad sales force (which may or may not include layoffs) as they lean into AI based automation of advertiser campaigns covers two recurring themes of job anxiety I’ve written about.

The first is AI causing the elimination of white collar jobs. Such jobs disappearing due to layoffs or closing open positions will become the background noise of this decade.

Secondly, layoffs in big tech are going to be ongoing from now on.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-plans-ad-sales-restructuring-as-automation-booms