The Missing Chair

HubSpot is cutting nearly 660 jobs, about 7% of its workforce, as it reorganizes around delivering customer outcomes with AI. CEO Yamini Rangan says the reductions are not driven by AI-related efficiencies. The drawing centers a worker carrying her belongings while unseen decision-makers remove a chair from the office arrangement. It captures another route from technological change to job loss: a company redesigns its structure, and an employee’s place disappears. For the person leaving, a change in corporate direction becomes an immediate change in income, routine and plans. Read the company’s announcement.