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Tori Paulman

Vice president analyst at Gartner, covering AI strategy and workforce questions for enterprise technology clients.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

Gartner pins under 1% of 2025's 1.4 million layoffs on AI productivity

Labor market data still shows no AI hiring disruption, and Gartner's talent analysts say the money goes into governance, workflow redesign and the human review queue agentic systems create. Buyers left that line out of their own estimates.

Publishers:techtarget.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption35
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence45

leadership1 publisher

Gartner expects a third of AI-replaced workers to be rehired by 2029 at higher cost

Gartner's Tori Paulman says agentic AI is not carrying enough work to justify large cuts, and her team traced under 1% of more than a million 2025 layoffs to AI productivity. The rehiring bill lands on few employers.

Publishers:ciodive.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption45
Hype gap+18
Incentives70
Confidence52