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applegrove

(133,089 posts) Fri Jan 10, 2025, 02:19 AM Jan 2025

41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI

https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/113801562834665245

They'll boil the oceans for the promise of free labor. That's what's driving all the AI bullshit: a bunch of rich assholes who don't want to pay workers.

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41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2025 OP

Let's hope the mean at each is around 1% of jobs cut and not like 20% of them at these 41% of companies AZJonnie Jan 2025 #1

3 people I know have already lost jobs to AI - different careers SheltieLover Jan 2025 #2

AZJonnie

(4,016 posts)

1. Let's hope the mean at each is around 1% of jobs cut and not like 20% of them at these 41% of companies

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 03:35 AM

Jan 2025

41% is def. a scary number but its just number of companies with >0 jobs replaced. You need the 'by how much' number to be properly terrified (or, hopefully, not).

SheltieLover

(81,709 posts)

2. 3 people I know have already lost jobs to AI - different careers

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Jan 10, 2025, 03:51 AM

Jan 2025

One in IT, 1 in fiber optics, & one was a medical scribe in an ER. What could possibly go wrong?.

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