ClickUp CEO Cuts 22% Workforce Despite Business Being 'Strongest Ever'; CEO Says 'I Did It Because...' - News18

ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans has laid off 22% of his workforce, because nothing says 'strongest ever' like firing a fifth of your company.

According to Evans, the decision was driven by 'AI-led workplace transformation to prepare for the future' — which is corporate speak for 'we're replacing you with software and calling it strategy.' The logic is impeccable: business is booming, so let's immediately shrink the team that made that boom possible. One can only admire the singular focus on efficiency, even if it means ignoring the human cost.

Evans joins a long line of tech CEOs who've discovered that the fastest way to 'prepare for the future' is to make the present deeply uncertain for thousands of employees. The irony is, of course, that if the business is truly at its strongest, this move is less about necessity and more about preemptive capitulation to the idea that humans are merely placeholders for the algorithms to come. Welcome to the 'strongest ever' era of employment.