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[–] tricerotops@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Recalling how he fired 27 of the team of 30 student workers in a sales enablement team he was leading at the time, Clark told Giz that the group now gets more "done in less than a day, less than an hour what they were taking a week to produce."'

"In the area of efficiency," he added, "it made sense to get rid of people."

If you're expecting your army of interns to be productive I don't really know what to tell you

[–] WafflesTasteGood@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds more like HR and middle management should be replaced with AI, if there were that many unneeded employees in a department.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Management is historically a job done by the elderly and infirm. Capitalism elevated these positions to positions of power rather than support.

Ideally advanced prediction algorithms would liberate these people from the burden of management work and allow for them to live off the surplus value created by the increase in worker productivity that those algorithms help enable.

In Western society though, management isn't seen as a job for those who can't work, and is instead a position of power granted to those who refuse to work and wish to extract that surplus for themselves. So we see this relationship that should exist being inverted and a self-cannibalization of productivity as the unproductive managerial class turns the tool of their own destruction upon the very workers that support them.

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