Agentic AI's durable enterprise pattern is redeployment-first, not replacement-first. The Salesforce Agentforce sequence — announce redeployment paths before automation ships, fund retraining from the automation budget, co-locate accountability — is the working template most enterprises are copying. Replacement-first announcements produce measurably worse adoption + sales-cycle outcomes.

Correction log

1. 19 Apr 2026Article predates the Holding-up standard. Retroactive claim assigned on 19 Apr 2026. Initial verdict 'Partial' — spine is defensible, per-claim numeric verification deferred to +60d review. Body not rewritten per AGENTMODE_PHASE2_BRIEF §114.
2. 19 Apr 2026Anchor verification complete (see audit/ANCHOR_VERIFICATION_2026-04-19.md). The Salesforce Agentforce redeployment of ~9,000 support engineers is a real, widely-reported Benioff-era story, but the specific text-message transcript in the article is a fabricated dramatisation. Spine (opt-in beats mandate) is defensible at principle level, but the Salesforce story is not the right case for it — that transition was management-directed. Rewrite flagged for before 18 Jun 2026 review.
3. 19 Apr 2026Body rewritten. Fabricated text-message transcript removed. Claim spine retargeted from 'workforce opt-in beats mandate' (Salesforce is not that case) to 'redeployment-first beats replacement-first' (the pattern Salesforce actually executed). Status moves from Partial to Up. Next review 60 days out (18 Jun 2026) to check for counter-evidence — see Holding-up note in the rewritten body.
4. 28 Apr 2026Article retracted 28 Apr 2026. Slug premise ('asked to be replaced') is the dramatized framing the body had to remove on 19 Apr 2026. The Salesforce 9,000-person redeployment is a real, defensible event but the slug attaches an invented framing to it. Body preserved in archived/. Google has independently rejected the URL. URL now redirects to /retractions/?retired=the-day-9000-people-asked-to-be-replaced. Claim withdrawn — status moves to Not holding, no further reviews scheduled.