LinkedIn Cuts Prompt Career Shifts To Consulting

LinkedIn and other Australian firms are cutting roles as they pivot to AI investment, exemplified by senior editor Natalie MacDonald’s May 2025 redundancy and subsequent launch of a consultancy. The report cites WiseTech’s planned 2,000 job cuts, hundreds at Commonwealth Bank and Telstra, and Ranstad research showing one in three Australians fear losing jobs to AI within five years.