Three companies were said to have undone their AI layoffs. One did.

Kelly Services named Ford, Commonwealth Bank, and IBM as reversing AI layoffs. Only Commonwealth Bank holds up at source.

• Commonwealth Bank cut 45 roles for a voice bot in 2025, then offered them back a month later, saying it had misjudged them. The union counts around 800 CBA roles cut in the year to July 2026.
• Ford hired roughly 300 veteran engineers after over-trusting quality automation. No source I found says they were cut for AI.
• IBM cut about 1 percent of staff in 2025 for what Axios reports was "business demand." Nothing I found links it to its hiring plan.

Before August 11, Fast Company, CNBC, and Kelly ran the 32 percent without Robert Half's restriction: managers who had already cut for AI.

Commonwealth Bank's reversal followed workers counting the calls and a union at a tribunal, not the software failing. Built from published documents. I contacted nobody.