The economics here aren't abstract. SHRM's benchmarking data has consistently shown cost per hire in the thousands of dollars and time to fill stretching past a month for many roles (SHRM research). Every week a role sits empty, the team absorbs the work, burnout rises, and in healthcare or logistics, service actually degrades. Screening AI compresses the top of the funnel, which is the most automatable part. Nobody is proposing that AI conduct the final interview. The proposal is that software handles the sorting so humans can spend their limited hours on conversations. A ban taxes every hire with delay, and the tax falls hardest on the teams already stretched thinnest. That's a real cost, paid by real workers.
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