Most employment in the US is at-will, meaning the employer can dismiss you for any or no reason. There are some states in which this is not true. There’s also unions, which prevent unjustified dismissal in most cases. But for the majority, you are at the whim of the company.I don't know if these layoff employees are under contracts or permanent positions. I think if I am hired under short contract then it may not hurt so much since I already knew my contract would end in 1 or 2 years but I saw some laid off employees written their feelings on LinkedIn that are employees who worked for years in some projects.
I am not really agree with this video. This is some kind of a joke or talk show and by the way it's content is identical to the tik tok girl content, having sense of sarcasm as common. Why I said so, because we don't really know what that girl work is. The video she shared might only show parts of her entire work life in Google. If you saw my Instagram photos and videos, you might think that all my time were spent on nice food and places I visited. I won't share the difficult work I do daily as this things are confidential for me and not interested by major public. So just don't take serious about the girl's video. The entertainment life may part of the ways to release stress of work or work life balance. This is what I believe.
If anyone interested can follow her account or dig up her background to know more
Or their AI hired a bunch of people not needed and now they let them go.There are too many companies that would have made the mistake of hiring all those thousands of unnecessary people (and I am referring to those of the first post). I cannot believe this, it is more likely that in those companies artificial intelligence and even new machines (mechanics/robots) continue to allow the decrease in need for employees.
Back to the time, I guess the software companies do not need to listen to shares holders and getting pressures. Now the billionaire investors can decide what a company do and not.Not sure if I missed it, but where is all the new innovation happening inside those huge companies like Facebook and Google ?
Oh, yeh - New name for Facebook - Its now called Meta. That probably took at least 100,000 employees to come up with that spectacular name ?
Its all driven by the advertising, and slowly but surely, the governments of this world are squeezing the people who buy "stuff". Mortgages in Australia for example, have doubled and tripled in the past 12 months. Where's the spare money to buy more "stuff"?
And why do those huge companies keep grabbing all the IT Brains coming out of the Universities of the World? Are they looking for the App which will save them. And no one can come up with the "Killer App" any more? Now it has to be a "Savior App". Anything new happening in Microsoft ? Are they still looking for deliberate ways to confuse their loyal users. "Where can we hide the 'Copy' and 'Paste' Commands next time ? How about we remove the ability to use Cntrl C and Cntrl V - that will fix them!"
And why are programming languages becoming more complex, rather than more simple to use?
Where are the brains being used to simplify rather than make more complex? (No one seems interested in simplification)
Why can't I in 2023 answer a few questions to generate an eCommerce Website and have an intelligent piece of software build the finished product AUTOMATICALLY?
eg,
ECOMMERCE DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS
The Development works on the premise that a customer has a rough idea of their requirements, but is normally not able to
translate those ideas and concepts into a programming language - ie, He is not a computer programmer, but he normally knows
what he wants the final application to do, and look like.
If a user is presented with a question, he is able to give an answer, or go find out the answer to the question
Database
Database Type (MSSQL, MYSQL, MS Access, .......) Answer: MSSQL
Database Name : Answer: ITMSQL
Database Location: (C:\, 111.222.333, www.yoursite.com, ........) Answer: 217.363.221
Database User Name Answer George
Database Password Answer GEOPWD
Compatibility
Hardware Compatibility (Android, APhone, APad, Iphone, Ipad, IBM PC, .... Answer - Pick as many as you like
Auto Resize for Screen Size ? Answer Yes or No
etc
etc
User Interface (Look and Feel of screens - show a few options)
Application Interface (Which applications need to be accessed for Product and Customer Information)
Also provide import and export of CSV files for updating of accounting and stock control data
Payment options
Confirmation Options (Email confirmation, Email Invoices, etc
etc
etc
etc
AUTOMATIC APPLICATION GENERATION
The above "CONCEPT" of program development is not new
In 1974, when the word COMPUTER had "recently" been invented, I personally applied this concept to the development of Invoicing Software
for use with the latest electronic accounting and ledger machines made by OLIVETTI.
Using a brilliant piece of software developed in Italy (APCO), I was able to create my own list of Questions and possible Answers, which could be completed
by not only computer programmers, but by the salespeople who had sold the machine to the client.
The result generated was a program recorded on a magnetic card.
(The program was generated in Assembler).
I created the questions and answers, and also wrote the code in assembler, which would be included into the program, depending on what the answers were
given. Questions relating to Fields to be printed on a Form and their position on the form, etc.
The Final resultant Invoicing program would generate and print the Invoice and then would then update a Debtors's Balance on completion. (Not to mention, adjust Stock Balances as well).
I was the sole programmer of this project at Olivetti in 1974.
The principles I am describing still hold true today, yet I have never come across something similar in today's programming world.
Most Account System providers today, have religiously been feeding the masses with their approach to accounting, for many years.
It is amazing that companies like MYOB, XERO, still give users the minimum of options within their systems.
So .....
In summary, there is another way to develop software, which does not require re-inventing the wheel every time you speak to a client.
And that's how you can start to be more productive with 10,000 less employees.
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