Big Tech hat 80.000 Stellen abgebaut und die KI dafür verantwortlich gemacht – Experten sagen, dass ein echtes Problem darin besteht, dass Unternehmen 25 bis 75 % überbesetzt sind

And who was it that overstaffed them? Hm? The employees who are driving doordash now to feed their kids? Is that who did it?

The real problem is they have $xx – $xxx billion profit last year and want slightly more this year, which can either come from revenue growth (hard) or cost cutting (easy).

So they look for every corner they can cut. They will survive with 80,000 fewer people, worst case scenario there will be an increase in bugs but most of them will be annoying not show-stoppers, most people will put up, everyone has worked hard to make stopping using them as cumbersome as possible. But these companies aren’t Boeing if they screw up they are not going to murder, they aren’t liable for anything they do anyway so even if they did **shrug**.

Over-staffed yet these companies are still hiring or renewing H1Bs

„We need more layoffs, actually.“

Fuck all the way off.

I’m really curious about how one assesses whether a company is “overstaffed.”

If a company fires half its employees and makes the remaining half work 80 hour weeks to fill the gap, is that fixing a problem, or causing one?

Overstaffed? CEOs are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars… 

Break them up and make them compete with each other. More jobs, more choice, more than 5 people making decisions that impact everyone on the planet.

Yeah…if the companies are all overstaffed, why are teams putting in 60-80 hr workweeks? Doesn’t make sense.

Companies are not overstaffed. Companies assume staff can do anything because there is a ‚technical document‘ on how to do the job that can read and instantly absorbed. They look at spreadsheets and PowerPoint slides and see loss. I am seeing this where I work and it is rapidly heading to disaster. I’m guessing I have two years, tops.

Tech companies want to hire a bunch of experienced developers, do a project, then fire everyone and coast on the profits. This doesn’t work for people with mortgages and families.

Lol. Overstuffed. Every employee doing 3 jobs for one wage.

I work for a large telecom who is pushing AI, and just had large layoffs. Every department I’ve talked to I interface with daily is all way behind on work and understaffed now. There are not enough people to handle the work now, across a diverse set of teams. They fired too many people.

And CEOs are over-paid.

Have these experts been part of the on call rotation at these „overstaffed“ companies?

Who are these “experts”? Every company I know has been cut to the bone. People are killings themselves covering what used to be 2 or even 3 positions but putting up with it because it’s such a brutal job market.

As a former employee of a big-ish tech, I can tell you two things can be true: the companies can be both overstaffed and yet the employees are overworked.

There was a time when tech companies were valued based on something like 10x revenue, so nobody cares about costs or profitability, just keep adding staff to juice the revenue number, and along with it, all discipline to keep the teams lean and management sees adding headcount as the key way for their own promotion. 10 reports – manager, 30 reports, I need to be a director now. 100 reports, I need to be a VP.

So how do you still have overworked staff? Well, a lot of this hire is bullshit work, and bullshit workers are especially good at avoiding real work, so the real work still needs to be done, but that headcount was never growing as fast. This is how you end up with „A day in the life of a FAANG product manager“ who spends all day doing their „lifestyle“ stuff and barely get any real work done, and to be honest, these lifestyle product/project managers are a liability, just another person to report to and none of the decision making to get things moving and they contribute the most when they are not in the loop blocking things with their bullshit.

So when these layers of fat are eliminated, the companies work _better_. No senior management wants to say this is happening, so they say it is AI. Of course it is not AI. AI is used a a cover story.

There’s still a lot of fat to cut. I just hope they are cutting the right places. The worst thing about the bloat era is senior management thinks the noisy bullshiters are doing the real work, while the hardworking productive people are too busy to self promote their work.