PwC Trained 95% of Its Workforce on AI, Then Started Laying People Off

TLDR: PwC spent $1 billion over three years to make all 75,000 U.S. employees AI-fluent, achieving 95% voluntary adoption and 360,000+ hours of training. Power users completed tasks 8x faster. Then the company laid off 1,500 people. This is not a failure story -- it is the clearest preview yet of what enterprise AI adoption actually looks like when you follow the math to its conclusion.

PwC trained 95% of its workforce on AI, then started laying people off