• GeekyOnion@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Although I happen to work in “Big Tech,” I’m a huge supporter of this in principle. I’m 100% convinced, however, that the tech “leaders” won’t get burned, it’ll be the individual contributors that are going to be sacrificed.

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      2 days ago

      We see it already begun with Microsoft working to dump 27% of its employees, expect much more of this.

      You are correct, in various ways individuals will be sacrificed.

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        Even if that occurs, the money should go to the employees through unemployment, not to the companies where it goes to the top and the employees get nothing.