| ▲ | darth_avocado 8 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
I am to speculate that they are going to use this as an excuse to let people go without doing mass layoffs and having to pay severance. Training AI is just an excuse. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mgiampapa 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Many many moons ago I refused to implement a calendar event scraping system at Meta where it would look at all of your meetings on the calendar and do "analysis". IDK what ever happened to that task, I assume it died a death of no one else being willing to do it. This was probably 2011 or so, I can only imagine it has gotten so much worse. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lotsofpulp 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
White collar firms with a reputation for paying well don’t cheap out on severance. It’s a cheap way to get employees to sign some stuff reducing the risk of lawsuits, plus their unemployment insurance premiums stay lower. It’s only once the business is having a cash crunch or will no longer need to hire competitive candidates that they start letting people go without severance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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