[goyozi]

At least they’re not claiming the people aren’t needed due to the AI efficiency.

I don’t really understand the logic behind those massive hiring/firing decisions but both in 2023 and now I’ve been feeling that it’s a fad/trend decision as much if not more than independent reasoning. Everyone around is cutting staff, our board is asking if we can cut some too, boom, X thousand people fired. They claim people to fire are based on merit while insiders online are claiming randomness and often pure chaos in the affected teams.

Also, haven’t heard before about the tracking part but that seems f-ing crazy. I’d be glad to be fired with severance - more time and extra cash to look for another job.

[qnleigh]

Probably few if any of the layoffs are happening in their core AI efforts, in which case a big effect of all this it to shift the balance of their workforce toward AI and away from other priorities.

I also wonder if it is to see whether the remaining employees pick up the extra workload using AI...