Comment on Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence
realitista@lemmy.world 8 months agoNo, it’s a euphemism for “screw the people who are left, we need a quick reduction in our cost structure so that we can take bigger bonuses”
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean, I’m all for reducing cost and optimizing efficiency. We’ve been doing that in every industry since the dawn of time.
But it’s stupid to think AI is already there for most things, and it’s bad to lay off people who could easily be working on things AI can’t.