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Morning Brief · October 28th 2026
The Netherlands plans to cut 25,000 government jobs with AI savings as the reason
The Dutch government plans to eliminate 25,000 civil-service positions, more than 15% of the workforce, framed as savings from AI adoption, Semafor reported Tuesday. The AI deployment plans that are supposed to absorb the work have not been announced.
That order matters to the people being cut. A government that removes the jobs before it has shown what replaces them is betting the software arrives on schedule, and the risk of a late arrival falls on citizens waiting for a benefits decision. Semafor notes New Zealand is considering a cut of similar proportion. SourcesB
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This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 28th 2026.