Think about the recent tech layoffs - we spend a lot of time comparing one set of severance concessions to another. Wouldn't it be better if this were a matter of contract instead of your great corporate overlords deciding how much they deign to give you as they take away your job?

This may be the moment to start thinking about unions seriously in tech. The large employers have, themselves, acted to suppress worker power in the past: https://journals.law.unc.edu/ncjolt/blogs/wage-fixing-scheme...

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xur17 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I feel like the general consensus on most of the recent layoffs were that they severance was pretty generous. If it seems to be working okay, why do we need to introduce additional inefficiencies to get something we already have?

	▲	bonsai_spool 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The issue is the 'most' - and the severance packages can be changed tomorrow unilaterally. And maybe it would be better not to have the layoffs in the first place? The profits of the hyperscalers are growing steadily even as they fire more workers. I think this may be one of the last moments when programmers have enough power to dictate these things, should LLMs become as powerful as some suggest.