The AI-powered collapse of the American tech workfoce - Hypertext
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The vast majority of layoffs in 2025 so far came from the American tech industry, according to new research from RationalFX.
  • Over 90 000 employees have been laid off from the global technology industry in 2025 so far.
  • Over 73 percent of all layoffs are taking place in American companies as they embrace AI-powered efficiency.
  • Intel will likely be the biggest firer this year, with an expected over 40 000 positions being cut by the end of the year.
  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    I work in tech and I cannot overstate the AI craze that executives are on. We are constantly told to use it for everything, and that the only secure jobs are those held by people who use AI for everything. Using AI all the time is the only way they think you’re maximally productive. My LinkedIn is full of CEOs and influencers all crying that people who use AI will be elevated and everyone else will be dropped. In the most extreme cases, they imply that people who don’t use AI are obviously so stupid that you wouldn’t want to employ them anyway.

    Meanwhile I sit at my desk trying to make it do something useful.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      working at a medium sized enterprise, about $100m in profit a year.

      we got a new CEO. The old one refused, REFUSED, to implement AI in anything we did outside of alerting and monitoring.

      new CEO within a week made an announcement that we were developing our own AI model to interact with customers etc.

      at least I know the real reason why the board replaced the last CEO.

    • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      My last job tracked it, because of course they did. They could tell how often we logged into the AI tools and how many queries we ran a week and if we didn’t hit a certain number, we were reprimanded.

      It was a support job. They wanted us running customer tickets to train the AI, we were basically training our replacement. And it’s obvious to everyone, we’re not stupid, so morale was absolutely in the fucking gutter.

      • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I just got recruited into a workgroup assigned to get AI tools together to perform one of the job functions we have in all our teams. We were told it’s on the down-low for now because people are of course concerned about job security, but this is all really to guarantee they have job security.

        I was like… blink… wut.

        Nothing like being told to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears.