The dead pool
Whose humans get automated next? Anonymous voting, one vote per company per day. The notes are the editor's, the votes are yours, the future is nobody's.
| company | votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | IBM IBM rebalances its workforce, a verb that means firing people |
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| 2. | Klarna Klarna's 700-person AI victory lap quietly reverses |
1 | |
| 3. | OpenAI OpenAI fires humans for doing what OpenAI does |
1 | |
| 4. | Salesforce Salesforce finds a billion reasons to restructure its workforce |
1 | |
| 5. | Anthropic Anthropic admits its own product ate its entry level |
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| 6. | Epic Games Epic cuts 1,000 jobs, tells survivors AI is the new coworker |
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| 7. | Bank of America BofA cuts 3,000 jobs, hires 1,000 contractors to clean up the AI |
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| 8. | Boyle Compliance guru retires, gets replaced by a login |
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| 9. | Netflix Netflix cancels a thousand jobs, no renewal vote needed |
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| 10. | Thinkific Thinkific cuts 96 jobs, analysts raise price target |
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| 11. | Foxtel Foxtel tries to automate humans away, settles for regret |
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| 12. | Pokeworks Pokeworks freezes hiring, keeps growing anyway |
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| 13. | Workday Workday exec says you were always in the boardroom, actually |
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| 14. | McKinsey McKinsey automates the slide decks it used to bill $2M to make |
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| 15. | GSK GSK trims 1,217 jobs, mostly the people who managed people |
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| 16. | Kroger Kroger finds 37% of office jobs were just duplicate work |
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| 17. | Volkswagen Group VW design chief: AI boosts creativity, shrinks headcount |
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| 18. | Block Block cuts 40% of staff, code review gets 150% chipper |
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| 19. | Hubtel Hubtel freezes hiring, CEO promises 10-20x jobs someday |
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| 20. | Yale Yale's donor letters now ghostwritten by actual ghosts in the machine |
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| 21. | Mercor Mercor fires 50 people, calls it a typo |
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| 22. | Rivian Rivian retitles the title department: deleted |
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| 23. | Meta Meta trims 10 percent of staff, grows its AI org by the same breath |
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| 24. | Deutz Deutz engines restructured, 300 jobs idle before the results call |
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| 25. | DeepL DeepL flattens its org chart, finds no managers underneath |
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| 26. | Andreessen Horowitz a16z eats its own cooking, recruiters get the bill |
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| 27. | Microsoft Microsoft calls Vietnam staff into a meeting, then out the door |
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| 28. | Amoniss Pimkie's parent outsources customer service to Tangier, AI included |
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| 29. | BHP BHP mines less overhead, same iron ore |
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| 30. | TomTom TomTom recalculates route, 200 jobs fall off the map |
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| 31. | Samsung Samsung finds 20% of its phone division is now hypothetical |
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| 32. | FlashAI FlashAI does the work of five, hires zero |
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| 33. | Veloe Veloe's new IVR hangs up on 80% of its workforce's reason to exist |
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| 34. | StarHub StarHub reviews strategy, finds 300 fewer people needed |
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| 35. | Citi Citi moves from 'restructuring' to 'excellence,' same 20,000 absences |
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| 36. | Axon Axon aims AI at the people who built its AI |
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| 37. | Infosys Infosys CEO previews the other half of the org chart |
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| 38. | Cloudflare Cloudflare's 600% AI metric means everything and nothing |
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| 39. | Publicis Groupe Publicis sets a quarter-off sale on human tasks |
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| 40. | ByteDance 200 million daily users, one increasingly edge-case team |
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| 41. | FICO FICO cuts hundreds, your credit score unaffected but curious |
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| 42. | Coforge Coforge flattens 13 career layers into four AI bands |
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| 43. | Lightspeed Lightspeed cuts 250 roles, some of which never existed |
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| 44. | LinkedIn LinkedIn cuts 875 jobs right after its best quarter ever |
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| 45. | DocMorris DocMorris prescribes itself a healthy dose of automation |
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| 46. | Mesa Laboratories Mesa Labs finds $5M in savings, 40 of it human |
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| 47. | Basware Basware's AI now answers half your complaints about Basware's customers |
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| 48. | POSCO DX POSCO DX CEO: people still matter, 20% of the work proves it |
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| 49. | Quantum Studios Quantum Studios cuts 15% of artists, calls it unprecedented |
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| 50. | Duco Duco reconciles the books, then the headcount |
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