A healthy company hires when it needs to and keeps people when they're doing good work. A failing company cuts over and over, calls it restructuring, and pretends things are fine. We've been through how many rounds in the last few years? Certainly too many. That's not a sign of a strong organization.
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We've always hired excessively when times are good, and laid-off/frozen hiring when times are bad. We need to operate as if times are bad, right sized labor force always, so we don't have to layoff when they are.
@ar Blur the human AI labor line?
It’s more insidious than that.
Instill fear. Constrain costs. Reduce media and political impacts when there are larger cuts. Blue the human AI labor line. Quietly migrate locations. Provide cover for bullies.