Was that tech job just a mirage?

[csrcsr]

“They were just kind of, like, hoarding us like Pokémon cards.”
“They hire everybody, whether they need it or not, just to have a reserve of talent. They can afford it.”

Tech companies this year have laid off more than 168,000 workers. Amid job cuts, we talk to former workers who say they were paid six figures to do essentially nothing at all, and the industry professionals who say it isn't actually all that surprising.

Read more in our story in today's

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tepingchen_these-tech-workers-say-they-were-hired-to-activity-7050112141202182145-nTG1?utm_source=share

 

 

Some laid off tech workers are confessing in viral TikToks that they didn't do much actual work at their former jobs. Companies such as Meta and Amazon decided to "hoard talent" from rivals in areas such as software engineering and AI during the COVID boom, The Wall Street Journal reports, betting that increased online activity would last. The spree also represented a hope that the hires would eventually pay off, according to a tech advisor. But workers say the risk was greater to them, in terms of career setbacks 

[csrcsr]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-tech-workers-say-they-were-hired-to-do-nothing-762ff158?mod=hp_lead_pos2

[Spartan]

[futureofandhra]

5 minutes ago, csrcsr said:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-tech-workers-say-they-were-hired-to-do-nothing-762ff158?mod=hp_lead_pos2

I have posted about this some 2 weeks back 

ethics employees ki undali adhi idhi antaru eventually here big corps did it 

[secundrabadi]

7 minutes ago, csrcsr said:

“They were just kind of, like, hoarding us like Pokémon cards.”
“They hire everybody, whether they need it or not, just to have a reserve of talent. They can afford it.”

Tech companies this year have laid off more than 168,000 workers. Amid job cuts, we talk to former workers who say they were paid six figures to do essentially nothing at all, and the industry professionals who say it isn't actually all that surprising.

Read more in our story in today's

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tepingchen_these-tech-workers-say-they-were-hired-to-activity-7050112141202182145-nTG1?utm_source=share

 

 

Some laid off tech workers are confessing in viral TikToks that they didn't do much actual work at their former jobs. Companies such as Meta and Amazon decided to "hoard talent" from rivals in areas such as software engineering and AI during the COVID boom, The Wall Street Journal reports, betting that increased online activity would last. The spree also represented a hope that the hires would eventually pay off, according to a tech advisor. But workers say the risk was greater to them, in terms of career setbacks 

Yes. Rajnikanth “antha maya” song vesko 

[jaathiratnalu]

2 hours ago, futureofandhra said:

I have posted about this some 2 weeks back 

ethics employees ki undali adhi idhi antaru eventually here big corps did it 

Ethics ante enti anna 

mana Chibn la pakkana vuntu …..