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The AI-powered collapse of the American tech workfoce (htxt.co.za)
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  • Over 90 000 employees have been laid off from the global technology industry in 2025 so far.
  • Over 73 percent of all layoffs are taking place in American companies as they embrace AI-powered efficiency.
  • Intel will likely be the biggest firer this year, with an expected over 40 000 positions being cut by the end of the year.
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[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My last job tracked it, because of course they did. They could tell how often we logged into the AI tools and how many queries we ran a week and if we didn't hit a certain number, we were reprimanded.

It was a support job. They wanted us running customer tickets to train the AI, we were basically training our replacement. And it's obvious to everyone, we're not stupid, so morale was absolutely in the fucking gutter.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I just got recruited into a workgroup assigned to get AI tools together to perform one of the job functions we have in all our teams. We were told it’s on the down-low for now because people are of course concerned about job security, but this is all really to guarantee they have job security.

I was like… blink… wut.

Nothing like being told to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears.