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IBM Lays Off 8k Employees for AI, Only to Rehire Just as Many Soon After
- ozgrakkurt 1y agoCurious if they really believed the hype or just fired all those people to play with the stock price
- pr07ecH70r 1y agoI think it was rather a poor try in "knowledge exchange" but it is not sustainable in the long run.
- mkrishnan 1y agoSounds like they replaced HR people with engineers and designers? AI helped them do it.
- DebtDeflation 1y agoPure propaganda. The people who were laid off were in the US, Canada, and Western Europe. The people who were "rehired" were in India. AI had a minimal role, primarily as a cover story.