| ▲ | orochimaaru 6 days ago | |||||||||||||
The study is bs. While executives are blaming AI, it is nowhere near levels of replacement. What I bet is happening under the covers is reprioritization of work, offshoring or both. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | smt88 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
> What I bet is happening under the covers is reprioritization of work, offshoring or both. AI has been frequently used as an explanation for layoffs. Before AI, layoffs would be a positive signal to investors, but they'd be demoralizing to staff and/or harm the brand. Now, you can say, "Wow, we're so good at technology, we're eliminated ___ jobs!" and try to get the best of both worlds. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | stonemetal12 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Why bet? In the news recently Australian bank CBA was caught offshoring positions and claiming the jobs had been replaced by AI. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | anthem2025 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
It’s also just natural cost cutting from businesses that were previously massively over hiring, and outside of AI don’t exactly have a ton of areas with huge growing investment. Plus slashing jobs like this keeps the plebs in line. They don’t like software engineers having the money and job security to raise a stink over things. They want drones terrified of losing everything. | ||||||||||||||