New data from workplace analytics firm Visier shared with Axios shows that companies are rehiring a growing share of the same employees they laid off
For more money?
lol they might have to if they’re desperate enough
I doubt it though. Probably a whole lot of contract work filling up what was previously full time corporate positions.
It’s gonna depend on how much they’ve managed to build out the reserve army of labor. If there are a bunch of desperate people who got laid off and weren’t able to find jobs then companies will give them shitty terms, but if devs are still in demand then they’ll have a harder time stiffing them.
Yea, idk, given how many folks have been getting laid off I’m guessing it’s not a worker’s market.
that’s quite possible
And this time they’ll think to form a union probably…
I’d settle for the CEO wearing a bandana that says “I’m stupid”
Derler said many senior executives simply have not had time to evaluate the actual costs of large-scale AI deployment or to determine which roles can realistically be automated. Implementing AI infrastructure – hardware, data systems, and security frameworks – requires major capital spending. These costs often exceed early projections, forcing management teams to reconsider the actual return on investment relative to retaining skilled employees.
And good leadership is laying off employees, disrupting their lives and potentially jeopardizing your ability to successfully run your business before running these calculations? How is it that late-stage capitalism is contradicting its own propaganda to a pathological degree but we’re still somehow stuck with it?
because people at the top are not replaced by AI and they are also incredibly lazy and stupid.
Doubly unfair because if anyone should be replaced with AI, it’s the ones at the top. The system would still be bullshit but at least performance evaluations would be a lot nicer.
Not even AI, their roles just shouldn’t exist.
Literally their entire existence is a net negative. The porks are a literal bottleneck to getting people jobs, getting work done, etc. We can’t do anything cool because the porks don’t want to spend money even if it stabilizes profit. These bastards literally only want money for the sake of having it and lording over others.
Nothing cool happens and we will go extinct because some of the most weak-willed decadent pigmen want to stroke their dicks.
Let’s be honest, they’re probably laying people off for the temporary stock value boost to make quarterly profits but blaming it on AI.
I’ve personally witnessed leadership basically say “AI is good enough” even when it is clearly shitty. The most replaceable jobs are clearly theirs and not the ones that require accuracy, completeness, and thinking
it does help discipline labor, even if it turns out to have been silly
