• blobjim [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    A report by Beautiful.ai, which makes AI-powered presentation software, surveyed over 3,000 managers

    No need to even read the article. It's nonsense marketing.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
      ·
      3 months ago

      The key part is that managers believe this, and they will absolutely do layoffs. Eventually they will end up being forced to rehire some people, but the damage will already be done by then.

      Also, companies will often just follow the path of enshittification where they just provide degraded services to their customers.

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      3 months ago

      What they left out is that those 3,000 managers were actually just the AI replacements for human managers

      • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Genuinely, middle management is probably the best and easiest part of the workforce to automate with AI. Just ignore all inputs from workers and implement the c-suite demands in the dumbest way possible.