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ClickUp cut 22% of its workforce and replaced them with roughly 3,000 internal AI agents - a ratio of three agents per remaining employee.
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ClickUp cut 22% of its workforce and replaced them with roughly 3,000 internal AI agents - a ratio of three agents per remaining employee.

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