#automation

One Two Gunjan is coming for you
Three Four swipe your badge at the door
Five Six layoffs is how she gets her kicks
Seven Eight your job she’s gonna automate
Nine Ten time to make a friend

If not you better get on it because you can bet they are busy right now training AI to replace you! It should go without saying that they will try to hide this from you by saying they are "swamped with work" after the last RIF, or that they "have decided not to work hard anymore", etc

Meanwhile, the more co-workers that you show management you can replace, the more valuable you look to Team Oracle

Looks like they want to replace a lot of claims positions and coding roles with this new AI system Optum Real?

Bucket 1 — Already, approximately 35% of health insurance and technology worker’s jobs have been transferred from Americans to non-American workers (e.g., H-1B Visa, Offshored).

Bucket 2 — By end of 2026, AI (artificial intelligence) will replace 45% of the Human workforce, eliminating their life sustaining employment.

The big question, where does that leave you, if you do not belong to one of those two buckets?

Yes, this keeps getting repeated over and over but it is very important persons realize what is going on in our very own country and the repercussions it will have on unemployment and our way of life BEFORE it is too late.

To make a difference, consider writing your Congressman and tell them that you are for American (human) employment. And ask them, “are they?!”

Do you think the QAs and testers roles are saved or are planned to be replaced by AI?

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/15/jpmorgan-chase-goldman-sachs-ai-hiring.html

JPMorgan said Tuesday in its third-quarter earnings report that while profit jumped 12% from a year earlier to $14.4 billion, head count rose by just 1%.

The bank's managers have been told to avoid hiring people as JPMorgan deploys AI across its businesses, CFO Jeremy Barnum told analysts.

Soon PXT will get their permanent RTO! AI automated HR.

to reduce pay levels & boost profits all firms using AI scare mongering. Long way to go before is reliable

Acrisure is right now cutting 400+ accounting jobs. Good jobs, well paid (relatively) - this is all gone - last day will be in Q1 2026... they are saying it's AI, workflows, tech advancements, etc... it's about 2% of the totalk workforce but I think it'll be more than this. They are just starting and it'll get worse.

I also think it'll get even worse.

These are dark times.

Acrisure, a global insurance brokerage, financial services and technology company based in Grand Rapids, plans to cut 400 accounting positions in the first quarter of 2026, the company announced Wednesday.

Roughly half the positions set to be eliminated are based in West Michigan, with the rest stretching across Acrisure’s global footprint.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2025/10/major-grand-rapids-company-laying-off-400-people-due-to-ai-200-in-west-michigan.html

Accenture has reduced its workforce by more than 11,000 employees in the past quarter, spending over $2 billion on severance in recent years as the company undertakes a major restructuring driven by automation and changing industry demands.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/accenture-has-laid-off-over-11000-employees-it-has-spent-over-2-billion-in-severance-cost/ar-AA1NZs2v?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/accenture-layoffs-11000-jobs-cut-2-billion-severance-ai-shift-2798987-2025-10-07

Accenture layoffs: How much did IT consulting firm spend to reduce its workforce?

In fiscal 2024 and 2023, Accenture recorded business optimisation costs of $438 million and $1,063 million, respectively, primarily for employee severance, according to the company's annual report.

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/it-layoffs-how-much-did-accenture-spend-to-reduce-its-workforce-11759850757340.html

I just spoke with DAS. Back in June 2022 it looks like they uploaded Maurice to the cloud. This explains the robotic answers, the bad writing and his inability to read. It also explains any future attempts to automate your work and work we so that you make less money and work less hours.
He will be put back in his body when his total income exceeds $100 billion per year.
This is all pretty hush hush but on good authority.

Better buckle up.

https://youtu.be/1cp09eLVE20

Not close. It's a smart idea. AI can automate repetitive, manual tasks like data entry, scheduling with speed and consistency. This reduces a company's labor costs. Senior workers can increase their own productivity and focus on higher-value activities. AI can also train the "would be" junior employees into becoming more senior employees.

Actual d-mbest things: how about replacing remote work arrangements with RTO5? And RTT? And RTH? And then complaining that launches are too slow? And violating the rights of disabled employees? Shame!

https://www.beckerspayer.com/executive-moves/unitedhealth-group-taps-ai-chief/

TCS offer some of the lowest billing rates to clients- only robots can ensure profitability -humans staff cant, if humans then they should be like slaves/bonded labor.

Go figure what will happen next...

Ford CEO Jim Farley is issuing a wake-up call to America: the country’s economic strength depends not just on the innovation hotspots of Silicon Valley, but on the everyday industries that get things “moved, built, or fixed.” In a series of recent commentaries and interviews, Farley has been highlighting the mounting crisis in the “essential economy”—sectors like manufacturing, skilled trades, and infrastructure—and outlines how automation and artificial intelligence threaten to upend the white-collar workforce while blue-collar fields face unprecedented shortages. In late August, he authored an op-ed for Yahoo Finance outlining ways to close the essential economy’s productivity gap.

Farley’s warning is twofold: as artificial intelligence rapidly advances, up to half of all white-collar jobs in the United States could disappear within the next decade. He’s echoing warnings from other business leaders, like Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who forecast major reductions in corporate and entry-level jobs as AI systems increasingly handle coding, legal, and administrative tasks. Farley points out that many entry pathways for young professionals—such as junior programming and clerical positions—are at high risk as AI tools become more capable, potentially raising unemployment rates to historic highs.

“There’s more than one way to the American Dream, but our whole education system is focused on four-year [college] education,” Farley said during the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer. “Hiring an entry worker at a tech company has fallen 50% since 2019. Is that really where we want all of our kids to go? Artificial intelligence is gonna replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S.”

The skilled trades gap

Contrast this with blue-collar and skilled trade sectors, where demand is booming but the labor supply is shrinking. Farley estimates the U.S. is already short around 600,000 factory workers and nearly half a million construction workers, with shortages projected to worsen as infrastructure and manufacturing investments grow. Despite a surge in U.S. manufacturing jobs—up nearly 3.8 million by 2033, according to Deloitte—the nation’s vocational education and apprenticeship programs remain outdated and underfunded.

Farley laments that America’s focus on four-year college degrees comes at the expense of trade careers—even though these jobs are now among the most secure and essential in a changing economy. He compares the U.S. unfavorably with countries like Germany, where apprenticeships and early skills training are the norm and help sustain a stable, highly trained workforce.

Ford’s response and Farley’s playbook

Faced with worker burnout and wage dissatisfaction, Farley—taking a lesson from Henry Ford’s historic wage-doubling move in 1914—pushed to convert temporary employees to full-time status faster, unlocking higher pay and benefits. This decision was both costly and controversial, but Farley insists it’s the only way to make industrial jobs attractive and financially viable for today’s youth. The move reflects broader disputes in the industry, including last year’s UAW strike, which highlighted deep worker resentment over slow wage growth and job insecurity.

While AI may decimate many office-based roles, Farley sees hope in the essential economy. He urges young Americans and policymakers to recognize skilled trades as a viable—and necessary—pathway to the American Dream. “We need a new mindset, one that recognizes the success and importance of this essential economy,” Farley recently told an audience.

He’s advocating for a national strategy: greater investment in vocational education, apprenticeship pipelines, and pro-trade policies to close the looming skills gap and secure the nation’s economic foundations. Only by revamping priorities across government, industry, and education, Farley argues, can the U.S. both cushion the blow of AI’s advance and restore vibrancy to the sectors that keep daily life running.

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

“As an application company, we knew we had to start generating our applications. We just couldn't do it with armies of people anymore. We still need people, don't get me wrong, but the number of people we need is substantially less. We can build/generate much better applications than we can hand-build. We've been working on these AI application generators for some time, and we're actually using them. The thing is, we're not just building application generators. We're building application generators, and then we're building the applications, which gives us insights to make the application generator better.”

Conlusuin:,Most laid offs employees have been replaced by AI

• Driving
  Self-driving becomes ubiquitous. 12 million drivers unemployed. Uber/Lyft/trucking dead.
  When: 2028-2030

• Doctors
  AI diagnoses better, prescribes perfectly, never forgets symptoms. MDs become liability managers.
  When: 2027-2032

• Surgeons
  Robotic surgery with zero tremor, perfect precision. Human surgeons watch screens.
  When: 2029-2034

• Soldiers
  AI-controlled drones and robots fight wars. Humans become collateral damage, not combatants.
  When: 2030-2035

• Coders
  AI writes, tests, deploys, maintains all code. "Programmers" become prompt engineers, then nothing.
  When: 2026-2029

• Teachers
  Personalized AI tutors for every student. Classrooms obsolete. Education becomes purely digital.
  When: 2027-2030

• Lawyers
  AI reads all case law instantly, writes perfect contracts, argues better. Courts run by algorithms.
  When: 2028-2033

• Artists
  AI generates any image, song, movie on demand. Human creativity becomes niche luxury.
  When: 2028-2032

• Factory Workers
  Total automation. Lights-out manufacturing. Humans can't even enter production floors.
  When: 2029-2033

• Military
  Autonomous drones, robot soldiers, AI command systems. Human generals obsolete. Wars fought by machines.
  When: 2030-2035

Nearly half of US companies have slowed or frozen hiring in 2025, with 39% already laying off workers and 35% planning more cuts before year-end.

Looking ahead, about 60% of businesses expect layoffs in 2026, citing trade policy, tariffs, economic uncertainty, and AI adoption.

High earners, employees without AI skills, recent hires, entry-level workers, and certain age groups are most at risk.

Almost 30% of companies have already replaced roles with AI in 2025, and 37% expect to do so by 2026.

68% of firms increased AI investment this year, accelerating workforce automation.

Jobs with repetitive or administrative tasks are being automated first, while new opportunities are emerging in AI oversight, compliance, and human-AI collaboration.

Workers who combine digital fluency, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence will remain in highest demand.

https://allwork.space/2025/09/6-in-10-businesses-plan-2026-layoffs-fueled-by-ai-and-economic-fears/

Year after year, month after month..I'm having to constantly hear through my manager and from peers that the group I'm in will just shut down. The 'leadership' above us seems to think that the automation that is used in conjunction to our work just 'does what do and there's no need for us', when we pointed out time and time again the instances showing how flawed the automation is, and why the need for human intervention is valid and needed otherwise other groups would be impacted with no one there to catch and fix these issues. Our group is just a very small team of individuals and It's shear ignorance for anyone to think this automation is just 'set it and forget it'.

I dont know what to do anymore, im tired of having to be reminded constantly that we're probably done for...despite hearing this now for a LONG time. It's making me physically sick and I dont know what the point is in me busting my a$$ or giving my all when I feel like im not even wanted.

I ask of those who are in a similar situation for any helpful advice, please no sarcastic responses.

A company like Verizon, which provides a consumer service, is fundamentally dependent on a healthy and stable customer base. By adopting a strategy that prioritizes short-term financial gains from cost-cutting at the expense of its workforce's stability, it is playing a dangerous long-term game. The evidence suggests that a business that fails to add societal value by being a stable and responsible employer will likely face a downward spiral of a damaged brand, customer churn, and ultimately, lost revenue. The very technology that is supposed to make the company more profitable could, in the long run, lead to its economic decline if it guts the consumer base that is essential for its survival.

Verizon's strategy of using technology to become more "efficient" and cut its workforce is harming employee morale. The company's relentless focus on cost-cutting and a perceived lack of value for its employees will, I hope, lead to a downward spiral in public perception.

Verizon is offshoring jobs to India and Ireland and plans to significantly reduce its engineering workforce over the next few years. The company has already completed AI test cases for some roles, indicating a future need for only 10% of the current team. Even more cuts are expected with the development of 6G and a "touchless network." Verizon's focus on short-term financial gains will likely outweigh the long-term public and economic fallout.

Since 2012, Verizon has laid off around 48% of its workforce. These employees had families and friends who most likely used Verizon's services, and I'm sure the company has lost those customers and will lose more with future layoffs. When a company lays off a large number of employees, those former workers will voice their frustration online, damaging the brand's reputation.

… doesn’t exist anymore.

It is not a thing and it goes beyond HIH at this point. AI is the real disruptor and I’m seeing how this is already creeping into my tasks at an alarming rate

The beginning is very warped. The film explores the impact of labor-saving machinery on employment and the economy. As factories ramp up production for defense needs, workers face potential layoffs due to automation. The narrative follows a group of factory workers and managers grappling with rising inventories and the challenge of selling increased output at higher prices. Despite aggressive marketing efforts, the lack of consumer purchasing power leads to a failure in sales campaigns. The film ultimately raises questions about balancing technological advancement with job security and the need for economic prosperity to enable consumer spending. Keywords automation, employment, labor-saving machines, production, layoffs, marketing, consumer purchasing power, economic prosperity, sales campaigns, job security Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/factory-workers-the-labor-movement-a-history-of-manufacturing-layoffs/vi-AA1AuH6j?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W230&cvid=68c313f38e1c4e1d93c93bbfe34cbb04&ei=47

“Benioff called the first eight months of 2025, during which an estimated 10,000 jobs have been lost to AI, “eight of the most exciting months of my career.”

https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/sf-tech-ceo-says-ai-enabled-him-to-cut-4000-jobs/

UPS (Texas – Dallas facility)

Part-time logistics/warehouse staff

UPS is laying off 62 part-time workers at its Dallas facility in response to increasing automation, though it's attempting to reassign affected staff where possible.

Dallas, TX

https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/mass-layoffs-texas-20877865.php

Most people are clueless of the world around them but please prepare. Here is why they are coming out with the severance plan(s) changes. SF is f-cked and so is our society. Verify and do your own research, you don't have to believe me... but this is what politics and corporations like SF have done to you! Greed, corruption and immorality, as history always repeats itself. Wake up and become truly WOKE! It's all going to come crashing down sooner than later!
AI will eliminate thousands of job
Automation is here! Ask underwriting
Too many non-customer facing jobs at SF - going away! Horrible new hires/workforce!
70-75% of people can't afford a home - we sell homeowners insurance ????
65-70% of people can't afford to buy a new car - we sell car insurance ????
2032-That is 6 years - Social Security goes insolvent and will only be able to pay 74% of benefits. What do you think people will do?
50% of people have no retirement savings.
60% of American can't cover a $1000 expense - everyone is broke!
Personal Credit Card debt just hit an all time high of $1.21 trillion.
$1.6 trillion dollars of student loan debt.
Average new car payment is $735! Record repossessions!
45% of Women Will Be Single by 2030 and will never have kids. (no more life insurance sells) Why do you think the US and Europe is flooding its countries with the third world, as Nancy P. said who is going to pick our crops or build stuff? I don't see white and black kids out there, do you?
Populatons - China - 1.46 billion and India 1.4 billion, USA - 356 million! Who do you think wins the economic wars with that much disposable labor!
60% of men are not dating and do not want to date.
$38 Trillion dollars in debt and we are spending $1 trillion a year to pay the interest on the loan. Still running trillions of dollars deficits.
By 2032 it will be $50 trillion and will cost taxpayers/you $2 trillion in interest. That means your taxes will have to double and inflation will get worse as we print more money! We have 801 billionaires in the USA worth $6.5 trillion. If we seized all their wealth/assets it would run the government for about 9 months! They would be broke...one time deal. It would also mean no more Amazon, Tesla, Meta, Microsoft etc...because most of their worth (Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos) is stock ownership, not actually money in the bank. Sounds good but is not reality......
Not even going to even get into all re--rded culture issues .....
This does not end well, SF knows it but most of you do not! Educate yourself. At the end of the day, most of you will be standing in a bread line, begging for water and will ask yourself how this happened overnight...ignorance is bliss. Probably can't do anything about it as it is going to happen anyways. What comes next when it all goes down.... well, let's just say, it will be beyond anyone's comprehension and will make WWII and/or the Great Depression look like a vacation! Su-ks but true! Again you can research anything written here..take a few minutes....don't be that mindless lemming walking off the cliff like the rest of the retar-s! Severance packages are the least of your worries! Your welcome.....

There is zero doubt. Not only did I already know this and have had discrete discussions with management, but I had the shocking experience experience of overhearing a very high higher-up talking about this situation to who I assume was a colleague in the lobby of another business! The goal is to send everything to Pune and ultimately have AI take over all they can. If processes fail, they fail; so be it.

Flashback... apologies if you already saw it and for posting something a bit old(ish), but I just remembered this one...

(FORTUNE MAGAZINE)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyEBnomL1RP/

IBM’s CEO thinks AI can do his job. Well, some of it.

“There are elements of repetitive, white-collar work in my job that AI could do,” Arvind Krishna told Fortune at the #CEOinitiative conference this week.

“But decision-making, creativity, collaboration with people, empathy—those are not things AI can do,” he said.

Krishna maintained that AI will create far more jobs that it will eliminate. “10-20% of job displacement may occur, but probably 30% new jobs will be created,” he said. AI is a “wonderful technology,” Krishna concludes.

Anyone else privy to the new policy that roles can’t be backfilled or hired until you prove why AI can’t do the role? And then you have to go and justify your position to MAV and ME, for them to approve.

With skeleton crews barely surviving, do they actually believe AI will pickup the work?

Obviously they’re using their ridiculous corporate buzzwords to soften the blow. The way they’ve said everything made it seem like this is going to be the last round of layoffs by saying there is no Cascade 3.

But… it says “There is no Cascade 3 as part of Capacity Realignment.”

Those sneaky ba----ds. Capacity Realignment is just phase one. “Cascade 2 will conclude Capacity Realignment.” There’s still Sourcing & Shoring and AI & Automation phases to come.

Maybe this was obvious to a lot of people, but I definitely had a false sense of security thinking this would potentially be it. I knew there would always be the POTENTIAL for additional layoffs down the road, but this sneaky bullsh-t just really jumped out at me today.

I wish they’d stop the bullsh-t buzzwords, grow up, and just say things as they are. Instead, they’re being a bunch of cowards hiding behind pretty words.

Both will cut costs. And AI will work around the clock with no complaints or recurring expenses. Loki knows the score.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/att-cto-touts-millions-of-5g-sa-connections/

UPS is continuing a nationwide downsizing effort by consolidating parcel distribution facilities, eliminating shifts, and closing underutilized sites to cut excess capacity and improve productivity. The latest actions include laying off 62 workers in Dallas, Texas, where a day shift is being eliminated, and shutting a facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 23, with most employees expected to transfer to another location. Additionally, UPS closed a parcel center in Pocahontas, Arkansas, on August 8, though job impacts there were not disclosed.

These changes are part of a broader network reconfiguration aimed at eliminating 200 sortation centers over five years and increasing automation.

The restructuring follows other recent closures and layoffs, including 99 job cuts in Charlotte, North Carolina, in May and a temporary shutdown of a New Orleans facility in July that affected 177 workers. UPS leadership has acknowledged stagnant package volumes for nearly two years and is intentionally reducing low-margin business, including phasing out half of its work with Amazon. Overall, the company expects to operate with 20,000 fewer workers and is also offering voluntary separation packages to drivers, though uptake has been slow.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-closing-operations-in-texas-north-carolina-as-downsizing-spreads