Because they saw Elon Musk cut 80% of the employees at Twitter/X and the company didn’t miss a beat, and realized that they were way over staffed with useless people.
Companies are cutting because they think it will replace employees. Companies always jump at what they think will save them money. Companies always walk into things that they think will make them money. Cutting is always easier to knee jerk than growth.
Companies can produce less and charge more.
Because the people just bend over and take it.
Conditioning.
A lot of companies are just openly hostile to the concept of employees. Where I am has been cutting and cutting and cutting for 15 years. We just lost 25% percent of our engineers (now down to under a dozen) in the product I work on, a product that makes a couple hundred million bucks a year. I don’t know if they bothered to blame AI, but the reality is they’ve been trying to figure out how to make money without employing anybody for a long time.
Photo....
Did a cow die to provide the leather for the shoes and brief case?
I just noticed: “Norman Rockwell”!