Stefan Bohacek"At Microsoft, managers are including questions about AI use in performance discussions. Employees are supposed to quantify how they are using AI tools in their workflows."
Solidarity with all workers affected by this ✊
I wonder if, on top of doing this to prop up the AI bubble, it's also an attempt to get more people to quit. Much like with the return-to-office mandates, hm.
Jonobie@stefan It might be, though it also reminds me of MSFT’s move to the cloud years ago. There was a while where basically every project template had a mandated section about how your feature interacted with the cloud. The people who were coming up through the ranks back then are in charge now and likely using similar techniques.
One of the things I remember working there is when execs would get some new direction in their head, some percentage of the workforce would basically resist and ignore it. Leaders would often use a combo of persuasion, performance incentives, and just outright “you must do X amount of this” to get people to shift.
It could be more nefarious, of course. But it also feels very on brand for “make the huge mass of workers shift the direction we want” that I saw before. (IBM used similar techniques - I remember being forced one year in the early 2000s to put that I’d file a patent in my commitments. So gross and not even appropriate for my area at the time.)