ClickUp, the $4 billion productivity software company, laid off 22 percent of its workforce. Founder and CEO Zeb Evans announced the cut on X, framing it not as cost-cutting but as a structural bet on AI. The company is also introducing salary bands that reach $1 million per year in cash for employees Evans calls "100x contributors". Evans says AI agents have changed what it takes to build software, and the roles that matter now are different from the roles that mattered a year ago. He divides the remaining workforce into three categories : builders, system managers, and front-liners, with AI agents projected to outnumber human employees three to one. Evans said most of the savings from the layoffs would flow back to the people who stay. "The business is the strongest it's ever been," he wrote. "Nearly every company will make changes like these. The ones that do it proactively will define what comes next."