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Three things to do when AI comes for your job
April 9, 2026 — 1:53pm
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Your email pings, and there’s a new message waiting for you. It’s from an address called “Company Leadership” that you’ve never seen before. “After careful consideration of our current business needs, we have decided to eliminate your role as part of a broader organisational change. As a result, today is your last working day.”
The message is followed by some generic words about how grateful they are for the “impact you have made during your time with us” and with a click, you’re officially fired.
If that all sounds clinical and robotic, it’s because it is. Shockingly, it’s also the real text of an email received by about 30,000 people just over a week ago who gave years of their life working for technology company Oracle.
The business........