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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again (fortune.com)
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“Every single Monday was called ‘AI Monday,’” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could work only on AI. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only work on AI projects.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”

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[–] 48 points 10 months ago (-1 children)

Probably overhired just after COVID like everyone else in the tech sector and then realized he had no idea what to do with all the extra people because he never really had a plan.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (-1 children)

    Eh I've only been in the software industry for 6 years and change. The post-covid hiring boom was for me the first time I'd seen it done en masse and then the subsequent layoffs were the first time I'd seen that en masse, but neither affected me personally luckily.

    I have no idea what was going on before that because I had no real reason to care, nobody wanted to hire me anyway before I got my first job in the industry lol

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