New on the blog: They Traded People for Tokens

Companies swapped salaries for AI tokens, and the returns basically never showed up. Gartner looked at 350 companies pulling over a billion in revenue. Roughly eight in ten had cut headcount, and the cuts had zero correlation with better returns. The ones who actually moved the needle used AI to make their people sharper instead of showing them the door.

I unpack why the trade breaks, and the one variable that turns AI spend into real results.

Read it: https://www.harvestkernel.com/token-for-talent-trade-ai-returns-fluency/