PANews reported on March 19th that, according to Cointelegraph, payment company Block has quietly rehired some employees after laying off 4,000 at the end of February . Several employees posted on LinkedIn that they received return-to-work invitations. One design engineer stated that his layoff was due to a "clerical error" and he accepted the invitation; a technology lead said he spent two days persuading management that more staff was needed to continue working on client-critical infrastructure, allowing some laid-off colleagues to return; a creative strategy lead said he received a return-to-work invitation about a week after being laid off, but did not specify the reason. Block CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged potential errors in the decision-making process during the layoffs, while maintaining flexibility to correct them, and pointed out that the development of AI tools forced the company to restructure.