Rendered at 17:38:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Cloudflare Workers.
queuebert 1 minutes ago [-]
As we enter this era of far more qualified candidates than jobs, HR will die eventually the equivalent of index funds is for hiring. Just as most money managers didn't beat the market and lost out to Bogle's low-cost index funds, people will figure out that HR doesn't do any better than any other random criteria for hiring and firing employees, since most of the applicants for most jobs will be able to do the job sufficiently well. Probably the answer is some sort of AI, but I bet you could do just as well rolling dice.
If most of us are honestly with ourselves, we'd realize the marginal return on difficult hiring decisions is extremely small.
As for the CYA aspect of HR, an AI can definitely do that cheaper and more callously.
simplyluke 6 minutes ago [-]
It's hard for me to not notice that the new C-level marching orders this year are that "measurement" jobs is actually what AI is killing (managers, HR, data, etc), and that seems to be an about face from IC-work being dead after the data is pretty clearly showing the opposite.
Do we not need HR and managers, or are those just more popular roles to cut and the impact takes longer to show up?
saos 22 minutes ago [-]
> The report also said that Human Resources employees at Uber, who had previously been cleared to work from home, are being asked to return to the office to comply with a three-day-a-week rule that took effect last June.
I feel this is direction much tech companies will take.
Aboutplants 16 minutes ago [-]
That is just soft firing, those choosing to not return to office will be among the 23%. That has been a normal tactic for years now.
MagicMoonlight 5 minutes ago [-]
I love that we all know it’s just pointless suffering, to the point that they’re using it as a strategy to make people quit. If it had any positives they wouldn’t be doing this.
mcrk 2 minutes ago [-]
What's the only thing worse than 1 HR Rep?
languagehacker 36 minutes ago [-]
Wonder how many of them got hired as a response to all the Travis Kalanick-era notoriety
new_account_104 42 minutes ago [-]
Looks like it's a good time for Uber employees to start discussing unionization.
crystal_revenge 3 minutes ago [-]
The "good time" to discussion unionization would have been about 10 years ago when employees had much more leverage.
But I quite vividly remember any mention of that here on HN back then was responded to with "I'm paid great and can easily change jobs why would I want a union?" (with many engineers only thinking of factory worker unions as a model and forgetting that very highly paid and in demand actors also belong to a union).
You negotiate when you're in a position of strength, not while your value is rapidly falling through your fingers.
With AI and a growing population of ex-corporate works desperate for work breaking up attempts to unionize would be easier than ever.
btian 4 minutes ago [-]
If every employee is part of a union, what happens then when companies over-hire?
kaikai 12 seconds ago [-]
Unionized companies can still do layoffs.
1270018080 22 minutes ago [-]
Ironically an HR department is detrimental to unionization efforts
jeremyjh 17 minutes ago [-]
I think GP means it is more vulnerable now.
new_account_104 20 minutes ago [-]
What do you mean "Ironically"?
brianwawok 17 minutes ago [-]
The department that wants to stop the creation of union would itself benefit from being in a union?
bell-cot 9 minutes ago [-]
"One rule for thee, but another for me."
Similar are situations where employees of a labor union are themselves unionized - under a different union - because they feel ill-paid and ill-treated by the union which employs them.
infecto 17 minutes ago [-]
Why?
cute_boi 9 minutes ago [-]
> About 90% of Uber’s software engineers are using AI in their work, Khosrowshahi said, while about 30% are “power users” of AI tools, completely rethinking the architecture of the company. [1]
If most of us are honestly with ourselves, we'd realize the marginal return on difficult hiring decisions is extremely small.
As for the CYA aspect of HR, an AI can definitely do that cheaper and more callously.
Do we not need HR and managers, or are those just more popular roles to cut and the impact takes longer to show up?
I feel this is direction much tech companies will take.
But I quite vividly remember any mention of that here on HN back then was responded to with "I'm paid great and can easily change jobs why would I want a union?" (with many engineers only thinking of factory worker unions as a model and forgetting that very highly paid and in demand actors also belong to a union).
You negotiate when you're in a position of strength, not while your value is rapidly falling through your fingers.
With AI and a growing population of ex-corporate works desperate for work breaking up attempts to unionize would be easier than ever.
Similar are situations where employees of a labor union are themselves unionized - under a different union - because they feel ill-paid and ill-treated by the union which employs them.
Either you lose job or you make a union.
[1]
This is expected. Expect more layoffs