Monday.com Fires a Few Hundred Humans So It Can Worship the AI God Instead

Well, what a surprise. Monday.com has apparently decided that the best way to “focus on AI” is to kick hundreds of actual employees out the bloody door. Because nothing screams “innovation” quite like a pile of layoffs wrapped in executive buzzwords and investor-friendly horseshit.

According to the TechCrunch piece, Monday.com is cutting hundreds of jobs while shifting its attention and resources toward artificial intelligence. The company is basically doing what every other tech outfit is doing now: chanting “AI, AI, AI” like it’s some magical incantation that will excuse every brutal spreadsheet decision made in the boardroom.

The official line is the usual corporate sludge — streamline operations, improve efficiency, position for the future, blah blah blah. Translation: humans are expensive, AI is trendy, and executives would very much like Wall Street to clap while they set fire to payroll.

To be fair, Monday.com isn’t alone in this particular clown parade. Across the tech industry, companies are slashing staff while pouring money into AI tools, products, and infrastructure. It’s the same recycled shit in a shinier box: fewer people, more automation, and a lot of smug talk about “transformation.”

The grim little takeaway is that AI isn’t just being sold as a product anymore — it’s being used as the justification for corporate restructuring, cost-cutting, and the kind of “strategic realignment” that somehow always lands on the necks of regular workers instead of the geniuses who make these decisions after a catered lunch.

So yes, Monday.com is betting big on AI. Good for them. I’m sure the PowerPoint had loads of arrows, glowing gradients, and the word “future” in 48-point font. Meanwhile, hundreds of people get tossed into the job market because apparently that’s the price of progress in this fucked-up industry.

This reminds me of a place I once worked where management proudly replaced three competent sysadmins with a “self-healing intelligent automation platform.” Two weeks later, the mail server was vomiting garbage, payroll was offline, and the CEO was screaming because his calendar had auto-booked him into a meeting with himself. Beautiful. Anyway, that’s progress for you.

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Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/monday-com-lays-off-hundreds-to-focuses-on-ai/