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Seattle business leaders have issued a warning. They are concerned about artificial intelligence. Technology sector layoffs are also a factor. These elements are causing an economic shift. Local leaders are observing these developments.
https://www.fox13seattle.com/video/fmc-ct0uwlxr8z2xwzvl
My mgr got axed... and now I report to an offshore manager who doesn’t really understand what I do. doesn’t even try to... most of the time it feels like she just tells other people to do the things my old manager used to handle.Since all that happened the place has gotten a lot more and more and more toxic, with more offshore managers showing up while the people who actually cared about the work keep getting laid off and everyone keeps talking about AI like that’s the answer to everything.it will never be the answer. horrible.
According to this news article for reasons. Yay or Nay?
https://dailyvoice.com/md/elkton/morgan-stanley-to-lay-off-thousands-of-employees-here-are-reasons-why/
Shifting Priorities: The bank is reallocating resources to high-growth areas.
Performance Reviews: Some layoffs are tied to individual job performance.
Operational Efficiency: The bank is managing costs amid economic pressures.
AI, Automation: Increased use of artificial intelligence is automating routine tasks, reducing the need for certain roles.
This wave of AI-driven transformation only makes a small group of capitalists richer, while the majority of others may end up being harmed.
Antropic said the dod couldn’t use their systems to spy on US citizens. OpenAI picked up the dod contract.
So how do US TikTok users feel about their data now on Oracle servers now?
How long before AI is spying on employees?
Between reducing OT making it virtually impossible , not enough staffing and AI taking over 😒
If you want to trim away the useless, then start with HR. Just keep the bare bones skeleton crew, let the HR chatbot and AI do the rest of that work. If Citi AI can’t handle the mundane low hanging fruit HR work, then it has no place trying to be wedged into anything more complex or technical.
If it can’t be developed enough, tested enough and rock solid enough to handle the HR work load, then you have business trying to make it do anything more complex. It’s like trying to use a calculator that can’t add or subtract to perform advanced algebra. Use the HR role as your live test bed. Once you get that part down, you can then showcase what a success it is in all you little ppt slides and THEN move on to something more complex.
AI’s ability to replace work traditionally done by
human consultants threatens parts of IBM’s
business model.
Sounds like it will help accelerate and increase RAs which is right in-line with IBM's business model.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/modernizing-a-cobol-system-once-required-armies-of-consultants-spending-years-mapping-workflows-ai-changes-this-anthropic-says-ai-could-help-keep-cobol-running-for-a-long-time-to-come-but-ibm-wont-be-happy
Welcome to the "AI-First" masterclass, where our CPO and his merry band of visionaries have finally cracked the code: why pay for actual human expertise when you can just sprinkle some AI dust on the office and hope for a miracle? In this brilliant new company math, one prompt-wielder is magically expected to do the work of four seasoned professionals. It’s not a "layoff," everyone—it’s AI-powered efficiency optimization. Of course, the performance ratings are pure comedy; it’s a truly impressive feat to make KPIs impossible to achieve by simply moving them every time someone gets close. It seems the only thing "scaling" around here is the leadership's delusion that deep product context and institutional knowledge are "legacy baggage" that can be replaced by a stochastic parrot that doesn't even understand the roadmap.
I’m sure they’ll have a fantastic realization right around the time the production server catches fire because the code checked in by an "elite" hire who doesn't know the internals couldn't scale, and the IIM Product Manager’s slide deck isn't enough to rescue the business. There won't be anyone left who remembers how the system actually talks to itself, but hey, at least the PowerPoint decks looked sleek, right? It is incredibly draining to watch a leadership team systematically dismantle the very infrastructure keeping the company afloat, like watching a captain celebrate "weight reduction" while tossing the lifeboats overboard.
By the way, there’s a fascinating trend where every new "Director and above" hire seems to share the same IIT (from India) pedigree, while any existing veteran—PM or Engineer—without those specific credentials is being ushered toward the exit via "carefully crafted" negative feedback and impossible goals. Yes there are a couple of hires who are not from here, but watch the broader trend. If it happened to one person, it’s an exception; when it happens across the board, it’s a blueprint for a lawsuit. What these visionaries don't realize is that the momentum for a class action is already building among those who’ve been pushed out. I’m just waiting for that legal spark to materialize so I can join in and sue the heck out of these "geniuses" for wrongful termination. I have every single Workday feedback and "Connect" saved to show exactly how the narrative suddenly shifted the moment the new regime walked in. See you in discovery.
Are they so stupid to think AI or somebody in India or wherever can replace that?
Holy cow is this training horrid.
Heard through the grapevine people in HR have said that they expected more attrition after the 5 day RTO was announced. So from this you could infer that a major goal, if not THE goal of this was to reduce headcount. Also this means that layoffs are coming since not enough people left.
The next piece of this is that the execs have admitted that the company is becoming too reliant on contractors, and want to balance out the hiring with more full time employees. What is not mentioned is that they want to flip contractors to FTEs. Offshore hubs are being built to facilitate this along with abusing work visas.
There has also been a major push for AI recently. Which helps reduce headcount even further. Models are now reaching the point where anyone can automate tasks or have someone vibe-code a solution that is "good enough".
The end goal of this is that they want cheap offshore labor to handle AI to push out stuff that is passable. So many current FTEs are going to be displaced. This is also the end goal of an overwhelming majority of other large companies. This is not systematically sustainable. And the working class is being set up for a world of hurt.
So apparently, throwing darts are the new operating model. Town hall highlight of the year: Head of IT + CFO confidently announce that “No other companies have figured out AI governance… but we will.”
The silence afterward? You could hear a budget being cut in real time. This is coming from leadership that still treats basic project tracking like it’s emerging technology. But wait, it gets better.
Our fearless IT leader sends the brand-new “Head of Data” out of the country to “vet options” we aren’t even authorized to implement. Bold strategy.
Minor detail: this individual’s experience in data and technology appears to be limited to creatively rearranging LinkedIn buzzwords. If résumé fiction were a programming language, we’d finally have expertise. Because promoting someone with no clue in the space worked out so well last time… why not run it back? Now the plot twist: they’re stuck abroad due to regional conflicts and travel disruptions. You truly cannot script this level of tragic corporate comedy. We can’t align on reporting standards, but we’re about to solve global AI governance. Sure.
Next town hall prediction:
“We’ve decided to skip governance and move straight to vibes.”
Focus Services is closing its Greenville call center. This action will result in 94 layoffs. The closure is attributed to the impact of AI. Call centers are facing automation of routine tasks. This trend affects many call center operations.
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2026/03/02/focus-services-greenville-call-center-layoffs.html
interested to see reactions from some of these points, Dell is doing great these last few days in terms of stock, but is it short lived? I keep thinking about SMCi and they just seem to have the right blueprint.
consider my thought process:
SMCI is strategically absorbing short-term gross margin compression (6.4%) to aggressively secure physical data center footprints. Once the bare-metal hardware is deployed, this establishes a captive base to upsell high-margin, proprietary Data Center Building Block Solutions and cooling maintenance. SMCi is leading Dell in this technology.
AI-Driven Service Transformation: The traditional, human-intensive IT service model is being commoditized. AI automation is reducing the need for massive, global break-fix support teams, neutralizing the historical scale advantage of legacy hardware providers. Dell has not shown an interest to unleash their sw devs with Ai. they buy vs invent, well, overnight the world can invent more quickly and Dell isn't investing right
Expansion into AI-RAN and Edge Telecom: By writing lean, specialized software stacks for distributed environments, SMCI is capturing the emerging Artificial Intelligence Radio Access Network, and Sovereign AI edge markets before slower legacy systems like Dell can adapt. this is far bigger than most know.
Zero-Touch, Self-Healing Infrastructure: Integrating agentic AI into Baseboard Management Controllers and orchestration software enables autonomous power routing, predictive failure analysis, and real-time cooling adjustments, drastically cutting the operational overhead of rack maintenance. think, more self healing, less armies of physical technical support staff needed
Direct Liquid Cooling & Next-Gen Silicon: The thermal physics of upcoming architectures—specifically the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and HGX Rubin NVL8—mandate advanced liquid cooling. SMCI's in-house DLC engineering and rapid time-to-market provide a structural lead in deploying these dense, 100kW+ AI racks.
Financial Disconnect & Valuation Asymmetry: Despite exceptional top-line revenue growth (recent quarters posting >120% YoY growth to over $12.6B), SMCI trades at highly compressed multiples (trailing P/E ~24x, P/S ~0.4x). The stock is structurally mispriced relative to its market share expansion in AI hardware volume. dell is now in hold territory, smci might be a huge opportunity.
Legacy Over-Reliance on Bloated Ecosystems: Incumbent behemoths are institutionally bound to massive enterprise sales forces and heavy management software suites. These legacy structures create internal friction and require high-margin subsidization, making them vulnerable to agile, pure-play engineering firms. Dell is competing against the true lean mavericks (see what I did there). many sales folks on this, you're the champions keeping Dell going, kudos, but... change happens
Rapid Obsolescence of Traditional Software: The democratization of code via AI is collapsing the moat of legacy IT management software, this is the real place Dell is able to macgyver the numbers. Historically a competitive advantage for Dell, but now Leaner competitors utilizing AI-assisted development can now quickly replicate and streamline orchestration layers, bypassing the traditional software lock-in of these legacy giants.
interesting time to watch... I'm long on both, but I feel smci is better suited for the long haul, I'll be getting out from Dell, selling, later this year, but not just yet.
oh and I think more layoffs are coming, so it's not too off topic
Between company cutting costs, restructuring, and all the AI talks.
And yes, bonus week...let's discuss!
Did you know that United is licensing AI software from Amazon? This software allows call center representatives in other countries to speak, and it alters the tonality and accent of the voice. This is to prevent American citizens from knowing they are speaking with a representative overseas.
The AI takeover to move jobs overseas is already happening. You just don’t know it yet.
Consequences of AI -
AI has (some) innovations, but.
AI will replace (most, not all) computer dependent jobs (that can be) in the future, (easily) in the Millions over time; through automation efficiencies.
AI will take away Tax revenues (from those employees that were replaced) who contribute to consumer spending which will (not if) have a very Negative impact on the U.S. economy.
AI will create (some) high paying jobs, but unless Taxes are Increased on Corporations; and the wealthy; there will (not if) be a Major shortfall in Tax revenue.
The U.S. National debt is (currently) $38.7 Trillion (and rising) per usdebtclock, with $990.0 Billion a year in Interest paid by U.S. taxpayers to outside Investors (U.S. based, Japan; China; etc.) that finance it over time.
Wars are (Always) costly over time (but sometimes necessary to defend U.S. National security), and the U.S. National debt will spike because of it.
These are the facts.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/sap-reorganizes-board-as-ceo-klein-to-focus-on-developing-ai
L3H software personnel are going to have a RIF and be replaced by AI by the end of 2026.
Take the warning and do something to secure yourself and your financial future, be that move to a better company, vote the union in, or whatever other steps you can take and do this immediately.
https://youtu.be/oU11PttL90I
Angi confirmed it is eliminating around 350 positions as part of a plan to cut operating expenses and optimize its structure. Officials said advancements in AI have helped enable the workforce reduction.
https://www.businessinsider.com/angi-layoffs-angies-list-cuts-350-jobs-ai-efficiency-gains-2026-1
Response was
Using AI to replace a CEO’s decision‑making can be framed as beneficial when the focus is on cost efficiency, consistency, and data‑driven governance, especially in organizations where strategic decisions are already heavily analytics‑driven.
Core Argument: AI as a High‑Precision, Low‑Cost Executive
Replacing a CEO’s decision‑making with AI can be seen as a net positive because it removes one of the most expensive and variable elements of corporate leadership—human executive compensation—while potentially improving decision quality through constant, unbiased, data‑driven analysis.
AI systems don’t demand bonuses, equity packages, or golden parachutes. They operate continuously, process vastly more information than any human, and make decisions based on evidence rather than ego, politics, or fatigue.
Cost Savings: Regaining the CEO Salary
CEO compensation is extraordinarily high across most industries:
• The average CEO salary in the U.S. is about $812,900 per year A.
• At large public companies, total compensation often exceeds $18–23 million annually B C.
• Some CEOs earn over $100 million per year in total compensation packages B.
Replacing this with an AI system—even one requiring significant infrastructure and oversight—would cost a fraction of that. Even a robust enterprise‑grade AI system might cost low millions per year, and often far less, depending on scale.
Savings could range from $800,000 to over $20 million annually, depending on company size.
Those funds could be redirected toward:
• R&D and innovation
• Employee compensation
• Lower consumer prices
• Shareholder returns
• Long‑term strategic investments
Why AI Decision‑Making Can Be Better
Data‑Driven Consistency
AI evaluates every decision using the same logic, the same data, and the same criteria—no mood swings, no biases toward certain executives, no political maneuvering.
24/7 Strategic Awareness
AI can monitor markets, competitors, supply chains, and internal metrics continuously, not just during quarterly reviews or executive meetings.
Faster Decision Cycles
AI can simulate outcomes, run forecasts, and evaluate risk scenarios in seconds, enabling rapid responses to market shifts.
No Ego, No Personal Incentives
Human CEOs may prioritize:
• Personal legacy
• Compensation tied to short‑term stock price
• Risk‑averse decisions to protect their position
AI has no such incentives and can be optimized for long‑term organizational health.
Trade‑offs and Constraints
This argument is strongest in contexts where:
• Decisions are highly quantitative (e.g., logistics, pricing, supply chain, finance).
• The company already relies heavily on predictive analytics.
• The culture values efficiency and transparency over charismatic leadership.
• Oversight mechanisms exist to prevent runaway automation or misaligned incentives.
It is weaker in contexts requiring:
• Deep human intuition
• Complex interpersonal negotiation
• Visionary leadership
• Ethical judgment in ambiguous situations
But even here, AI can serve as a powerful co‑pilot or decision‑support system.
A Non‑Obvious Insight
The biggest benefit may not be cost savings or even better decisions—it’s eliminating the single point of failure that a CEO represents. Human executives can burn out, get sick, make emotional decisions, or cling to outdated strategies. AI systems can be versioned, audited, and improved continuously.
It’s been a few months. What’s the verdict on the new GM?
Are we offshoring all data jobs in the next couple of years?
The only takeaway for me was the OE moment. Basically somebody executed some script that ran up a $4m bill in a day. That seems like a fire-able offense. Which id--t did this and that’s one expensive OE moment.
Oh and also a very long winded meeting where every manager talked about how they’re going to do AI, except half of our talent have already quit, with more of them coming next month after the bonus check clears.
I guess the answer is more EY.
Meetings are being held (in person and Zoom) to encourage and push branch offices to use co-pilot.
Whereas the HO witnessed this type of hype in their "new system processes," which later showed itself as a RIF, so too will the field. It may take a couple of years, but its coming.
NEW employee slogan: "Participate in your own demise at EJ" ....instead of:
"Together We Serve" which really means "together we serve ---> the ELT."
Every time I walk around the office and see anyone with Eliza on their screen I just shake my head. Beside the fact that it’s not very good, I think it would be quite amazing to see the EC crash out if they saw a fat 0% use rate when they obsessively check the stats. I know our wonderful pals in Pune would never cooperate though
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15597141/jack-dorsey-block-layoffs-ai.html
"Jack Dorsey has axed thousands of workers at Block, the parent company of Cash App, Square and Afterpay, in a move signaling a major shift toward artificial intelligence.
In a note to staff, Dorsey explained that Block would be taking on risk by investing in 'intelligence tools,' as the company cut more than 4,000 employees on Thursday:
The company said workers affected by the layoffs will receive 20 weeks of pay, in addition to an extra week's salary for every year they worked at the company.
Those let go will also keep their corporate devices, receive stock benefits through the end of May, six months of health coverage, and a $5,000 payment to help them through the transition.
Employees outside the US will be offered similar packages, though details will vary by country, the statement said.
All employees were told they would be informed the same day whether they were being laid off, entering consultation, or keeping their jobs.
Block's shares surged 24 percent following the announcement of the layoffs, according to CNN."
I was in a call the other day.
She starts to ask how we can use ai to make our tools better. Offering suggestions that have already been solved last year. Literally doesn't know anything.
Worse is I looked her up and she has no direct reports. I asked around and apparently they gave all her reports to some poor schmuck and her role now is to literally look for ai opportunities wherever they are.
That's it, that's her job. $175k a year to for someone with no ai experience, no software experience, no hand on experience to do nothing except look for ways to justify more layoffs
This is a joke right...
From his linkedin post
"AI has sparked a new round of conversation about COBOL, with tools emerging that claim to translate legacy code and, with it, solve the modernization challenge. It is worth being precise about what that means and what it does not."
This framing understates the reality. The modernization challenge was never about translating COBOL syntax—it’s about risk, economics, institutional knowledge, and business logic embedded over decades. AI didn’t suddenly “spark” this conversation; enterprises have been trying automated translation, wrappers, and re-platforming since the 1990s, with mixed results at best.
Companies left and right are using AI to justify mass layoffs. Our leadership is peddling AI all over the place. We know Stankey is probably foaming at the mouth at the opportunity to ax tons more people and use AI to justify it like they use RTO as a cover for mass layoffs.
So explain why the he!! we are spending over a billion dollars to build a new playground that requires a specific number of people to be there in order to get Plano’s bribe? Shouldn’t someone maybe ask this question?
Just saying.
Dan was right with AI, employees will be replaced.
3 hours ago - Block Inc. announced a 40% workforce reduction to adapt to an AI-driven business model, triggering a 20-24% surge in its stock price.
Forget getting laid off, people will start just leaving on their own if we’re too lazy to write appraisals. Come on, how did they get hired if they can’t pronounce the words AI gave them. And don’t forget that clown last night who was talking all that sm--k about being somewhere outside of NY yet ran sh-t in the CSSC. What trash have we hired for TLs.
The Cisco ELT and multiple layers of bloat beneath them are waking up to the fact that the very AI they are so aggressively promoting will completely destroy their lives.
Each and every one of Cisco's business units are being actively replaced by a small startup using a tech stack that costs them less than $5,000. This is reducing margins.
Every white collar office worker that gets laid off is fewer access points, switches, routers and software seats. This is reducing recurring revenue.
Cisco is, in effect, destroying it's own customer base.
Expect the ELT to start aggressively rewarding themselves with stock buybacks, increased executive compensation, reduced benefits to employees and mass layoffs to provide immediate short term boosts to the stock price.
Got to love it. Another vzw outage and going to be out for 12-14 hours and once again no credits being offered. But hey let’s keep riffing, outsourcing and depending on AI to run the company. It sure seems to be doing wonders for our customers and business model.
I think many people do not get it - AI will impact many jobs for the simple reason that in the past 30 years we created lots of so-called bullsh-t jobs and many of you are doing them. And AI will ki-l those, but that is ok. Personal assistants, auditors, project managers, Excel monkeys, recruiters, HR, etc. to name a few - all will be gone soon.
The Data & AI organization has been in steady decline since Kat H left, and it worsened under Ronke’s leadership. Key talent was laid off without strategic foresight, institutional knowledge was lost, and execution quality collapsed.
For 18 months there has been no clear vision, no strong cadence, and no accountability. After the JC merger, politics and power dynamics overtook delivery.
The team focuses on frameworks and ingestion optics while lacking fundamental data understanding, quality discipline, and business alignment.
There is hope new leadership restores clarity, accountability, and real data leadership — because what we have today is not working.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4556964-citigroup-forms-team-to-finance-ai-infrastructure-bo-m
Lend money to companies that make no money. What could go wrong?
Block’s layoff news today is pretty fascinating.
Jack Dorsey just cut nearly half the company — over 4,000 employees. Headcount goes from 10k+ to under 6k.
Stock? Up 25% in a day.
And here’s the interesting part:
They’re not losing money. Q4 earnings beat expectations.
The reason given:
“AI and intelligent tools are fundamentally changing how companies are built and how work gets done.”
That feels like a real regime shift.
For the last decade, growth meant hiring.
Now growth might mean replacing org charts with AI leverage.
What makes it ironic is that Dorsey, as Twitter’s co-founder, left behind a famously bloated structure.
When Elon Musk took over, he cut roughly 80% of staff — about 6,000 people — and the platform kept running.
History has a sense of humor.
If fintech is cutting this aggressively in the name of AI efficiency, does that mean traditional big banks will accelerate layoffs too?
Feels like we’re entering the era of “AI + ruthless efficiency.”
Curious how durable this model really is.
I'm not sure that AI washing can really explain this at this point. Seems extreme. Will this be another klarna moment where they are calling people back in 3 months?
https://www.wsj.com/business/jack-dorseys-block-to-lay-off-4-000-employees-in-ai-remake-28f0d869
Jack Dorsey’s Block to Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce in AI Remake
Parent of Square and Cash App says intelligence tools have changed how to run a company
By Angel Au-Yeung
Feb. 26, 2026 5:04 pm ET
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square, at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention.
Jack Dorsey at a convention in Miami in 2021. Marco Bello/AFP/Getty Images
Block XYZ 4.99%increase; green up pointing triangle, the payments company founded by Jack Dorsey that includes Square and Cash App, said Thursday that it plans to lay off 40% of its workforce, or more than 4,000 employees.
Dorsey alluded to artificial-intelligence tools as the reason for the cuts in a letter to shareholders.
“The core thesis is simple,” wrote Dorsey. “Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company.”
The company said the plan would cost it $450 million to $500 million in expenses and severance. Shares rallied more than 20% in after-hours trading.
Big companies have already been laying off thousands of white collar workers over the past year, in some cases pointing to increased efficiency created by AI. Salesforce cut roughly 4,000 customer-support roles last year because of AI advancements. Pinterest, meanwhile, has said it is laying off nearly 15% of its workforce as part of a plan to focus more of the company’s resources on AI-related roles.
And the fear AI would shrink jobs and replace the functions of whole companies sparked a market rout earlier this week after a research report imaged a dystopian future for the U.S. economy.
Analysts and economists have pushed back against the scenarios laid out in the report, but Block’s drastic job cuts will likely stoke up those fears.
The company said most of the layoffs would occur in the first quarter of this year and be completed by the second quarter.
“I don’t think we’re early to this realization. I think most companies are late,” Dorsey wrote. “Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes.”