Here's another take. During the Pandemic most of the Rich people were hopeful for the AI and the automated machines taking over before 2023. And look what do we have right now. A web scraper that is posing as an terminator like AI?

Now they are making people work to the stage this AI would be really useful. Till then the life would run normal like pre pandemic. And once the AI gets matured and has enough means for the development without human intervention, then maybe they would start firing people for good.

For now they need people in the office and they also need people for products to be promoted through sales and marketing, because AI can't do that as it's not real human in outer world.