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Theoretically jobs reward loyalty and wish to maintain institutional knowledge. For some reason right now everyone thinks they can get away without those. And
by jdiff 1mo ago
Theoretically jobs reward loyalty and wish to maintain institutional knowledge.
For some reason right now everyone thinks they can get away without those. And I can't say they're precisely wrong. But as someone working on dumpster fire fighting, holy hell is a lot lost when you lose someone who's done nothing but X for 15 years. Now you've got someone with no experience with our processes, overworked, also underpaid, with nobody left with any experience of their own to train them. That can cost an awful lot of money.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agoEmployers are optimizing for labor cost control. As long as the enterprise continues to function and is profitable, the behavior continues. We cannot say it doesn’t work as long as it continues to work. Some have said job hop, I’d say unionizing can also work.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agoExample: Michigan Insurance Giant Blames "AI" for Layoffs–But Evidence Points Overseas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365161 - August 2026 > My investigation points to a far more conventional explanation: Acrisure is shifting work once performed by American employees to lower-cost operations in India, the Philippines, and Colombia. Labor cost controls, in this context via offshoring.