Mastodawn

I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so much work to and so few people to do it that everyone needs to work nights and weekends.

Now it just comes across that layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.

https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/infosys-narayana-murthy-996-72-hour-week

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Stephen P.Nov 29

@carnage4life I find an article saying "Tech companies are now asking for long hours" to be rather disingenuous; I've been seeing this cycle for my whole time in IT. Hell, I was working for a company that got acquired by InfoSys in the early 00's. At the big "welcome to Infosys" meeting the CEO told us a story about how an senior Infosys manager was shocked by the dishevelment of a subordinate. The subordinate explained that he'd been working so hard he was sleeping under his desk. (1/2)

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Stephen P.

@carnage4life (2/2) I was appalled by a few things in this story. #1: That people were working such long hours. #2: The manager didn't know how hard people were working. #3 - and the biggie for me: ***The CEO thought this was a good story to tell us***.