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AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees (www.jpost.com)
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[–] 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I wonder if it's related at all to this ongoing trend ( How Money Works on YouTube). Tech Bros got sore about the post-epidemic culture at their companies: People wanted to work from home, and knew that their talent was important so they got bold asking for pay raises and benefits.

And the tech bros took this personally. So first came the RTO mandates (which got rid of some techs, specifically the best and brightest) and then came later layoffs, some of which were blamed on AI automation.

AI automation was never actually that much further along.

Anyway, they laid off too many people, to the point that the remaining workforce didn't know how to run the business and the tech. So they had to hire back some of the greybeards, and are still replacing lost positions with rookies fresh out of college.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    are they replacing? seems like the layoffs has gotten worst, and people arnt finding jobs in tech like they did, i saw a correlation an uptick in posts on many subs lining up with the layoffs. especially without how employers are using AI/ATS system to screen people out of a job.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I work in engineering at a medical tech place. We have been having quarterly layoffs for almost 2 years now and I haven't seen a new face in that time.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    i suspect as much for the medical field, they practically want a skeleton crew for alot of places, thats why they dont hire alot of technicians, despite there being shortages in different positions.(making jobs somewhat competitive). rad tech, CLS, are the 2 with artificial shortages, CLS being more gatekept than the first one.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I'm personally only reporting what was discussed in HMW, that Facebook and Google are having to pull back some of their layoffs, either because departments are short staffed, or because they got rid of irreplaceable positions and no one else knows how to do that job.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I think this layout is 100% about S&P downgrading Oracle's credit rating to one step above junk. They're on the hook for the WB acquisition and the data centre build out for OpenAI, both of which look hugely negative. Wisconsin (data centre location) just sent the a bill for $7B because they don't trust oracle to pay the future costs to the state the development would incur.

    With no credit rating, and not much liquid cash all they can do is cut costs. Hence layoff.

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