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Dont replace 30% of us with AI, make my job 30% easier.

I just read about IBM dropping almost 8000 employees and expecting 30% of certain roles to be done by AI instead within the next 5 year. https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-pause-hiring-plans-replace-7800-jobs-with-ai-bloomberg-news-2023-05-01/ They dont HAVE to drop 8k employees they are choosing to. They could keep those people in work and reduce their hours by say 15%, use AI to improve productivity by 30% and leave their wages at the current level. Their profits/ productivity/ whatever metric they use would still go up 15% along with all the other benefits of having happy workers with a healthier work life balance. Companies really need to invest in humans and use tech to help them instead of replacing humans with tech . . . if no one has jobs who TF is going to buy their crap??


I just read about IBM dropping almost 8000 employees and expecting 30% of certain roles to be done by AI instead within the next 5 year.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-pause-hiring-plans-replace-7800-jobs-with-ai-bloomberg-news-2023-05-01/

They dont HAVE to drop 8k employees they are choosing to. They could keep those people in work and reduce their hours by say 15%, use AI to improve productivity by 30% and leave their wages at the current level.

Their profits/ productivity/ whatever metric they use would still go up 15% along with all the other benefits of having happy workers with a healthier work life balance.

Companies really need to invest in humans and use tech to help them instead of replacing humans with tech . . . if no one has jobs who TF is going to buy their crap??

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