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Should employees be told when an AI Investment is expected to remove jobs?

Here is a thought provoking board room debate for you. Should employees be told when an AI Investment is expected to remove jobs? Board's routinely approve technology investments based partly on future headcount savings.

14 October 2026 · 1 min read · Leanne Douglas

Here is a thought provoking board room debate for you. Should employees be told when an AI Investment is expected to remove jobs?

Board's routinely approve technology investments based partly on future headcount savings. Employees often hear a very different message along the lines of

"This technology will help you work more efficiently"

Sometimes both statements are true, but should organisations be more transparent? If an AI programme has an explicit business case that assumes 20 roles become 12 in three years, when should those 20 people know? At approval? At implementation? When the redundancies happen? Or is that commercially unrealistic?

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