kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 3 days agoCEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn't Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Againfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down11
arrow-up1141arrow-down1external-linkCEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn't Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Againfuturism.comkennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square11linkfedilink
minus-squareRBWells@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoHow does this work? Say he had 100 employees, he lays off 80, now he has 20, he lays off 16, now he has 4, will he lay off 3 and make the last one part time, constantly cutting their hours by 80% and approaching but never getting to zero?
minus-squarekiagam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoHe has to hire 100 new people everytime, 80 to actually do the work, as before, and 20 to fix what AI broke
How does this work? Say he had 100 employees, he lays off 80, now he has 20, he lays off 16, now he has 4, will he lay off 3 and make the last one part time, constantly cutting their hours by 80% and approaching but never getting to zero?
He has to hire 100 new people everytime, 80 to actually do the work, as before, and 20 to fix what AI broke