All of the AI taking jobs stuff is meaningless in the tech industry. All they’re doing is laying people off and making the remaining already-overworked employees pick up the slack. They’ve done this repeatedly and are nearing the breaking point. Tech workers are exhausted, miserable, and stressed out, and just trying to hang onto their jobs long enough that the hiring market improves and they can quit for, hopefully, something less bad. All the stuff about ping pong tables and bean bag chairs or whatever was always primarily marketing by the companies, and in any event largely disappeared long ago.
But big tech companies never want to go through an employee market like 2021–2022 H1 again, so I believe they’re quietly and continually laying off workers in order to manipulate the hiring market while also hoarding a bigger share of revenue as profit.
All of the AI taking jobs stuff is meaningless in the tech industry. All they’re doing is laying people off and making the remaining already-overworked employees pick up the slack. They’ve done this repeatedly and are nearing the breaking point. Tech workers are exhausted, miserable, and stressed out, and just trying to hang onto their jobs long enough that the hiring market improves and they can quit for, hopefully, something less bad. All the stuff about ping pong tables and bean bag chairs or whatever was always primarily marketing by the companies, and in any event largely disappeared long ago.
But big tech companies never want to go through an employee market like 2021–2022 H1 again, so I believe they’re quietly and continually laying off workers in order to manipulate the hiring market while also hoarding a bigger share of revenue as profit.