[Naritai]

I don't know why the IEEE is always such a downer about employment, but this article is stretching it the furthest I've ever seen. VW layoffs, especially if they come in the form of factory reductions / closures, could hardly be counted as 'tech industry'. Then, the actual layoffs that they tabulated at bottom of article are all significantly less than predicted. I assume it's tied to their anti-H1B lobbying, but it's getting pathetic.

[rukenshia]

It's not even layoffs. Just making use of "Altersteilzeit" (early part-time retirement) and then not filling the retired jobs.

[aswanson]

'zeit' must roughly translate into 'time' in German, based on context. Is that correct?

[jbpetersen]

https://translate.google.com/#de/en/zeit

[aswanson]

danke

[jsingleton]

Ja. See also the borrowed word Zeitgeist, literally time-ghost but more accurately the 'spirit of the age'.

[jjoonathan]

If only for the sake of managing the Overton window, it's good to see some counterpoint to the cries of "There's a terrible shortage of programmers [at the price point we want], we desperately need to increase [H1B quota, bootcamps, etc]!!!" that periodically bubble up from the Big Tech submarines.