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Why Companies May Be Destroying Their Talent Pipeline

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Francis Tan
Dec 28, 2025
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When Intel, Accenture, or Amazon announces job cuts, the headlines talk about efficiency, profits, and shareholder value. What gets buried is the long-term consequence: companies are not just cutting jobs, they are dismantling the training grounds that produced tomorrow’s skilled professionals.

This is the paradox of the AI-first economy: cost savings to…

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