Use AI instead of hiring junior staff = stock price bump.

5 years later senior employees start to leave; there is no junior staff to promote and management panics.

Management does not want to spend money on new staff so they hire expensive contractors.

Contractors do a subpar job, charging 10x what an actual employee would cost (different budgets so its cool); and the company starts to go downhill and customers flee.

This starts a death spiral leading to either bankruptcy, acquisition, or restructuring.

The original management who approved the AI have all gone and cashed in their stock.

Just a guess at what is about to happen across the industry.

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2026/03/16/servicenow_grad_jobs_ai/

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