[justapassenger]

This sounds like they’re firing people who manually edit and fix maps.

While it’s job that requires quite a bit of skill (my family member used to do that for other companies), those aren’t people you can redirect to R&D, at least not without heavy retraining.

Real reason behind it, is IMO, preparing for recession and finding nice sounding reason for layoffs.

[racl101]

Yeah, they're probably keeping the people who allow them to automate and are laying off the people who, otherwise, need to do the work manually / semi-manually when there is no automation.

Anytime you automate something that someone is doing manually, and you're automating it so well, there's a good chance what you build might replace the people doing it.