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White Collar:
Teenage Mutilation
#Tech #jobs are now #whitecollar trades that need #apprenticeships, not a career crawl
They typically see graduates hired to work on help desks and encouraged to gain experience by building and experimenting with a home lab or acquiring vendor certifications so they can secure a role in a network operations center. While that progression builds skills, it can mean a decade or more passes before they advance into more meaningful network engineering roles.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/tech_career_paths_apprenticeships_needed/
Its being called a White Collar Crisis. #Whitecollar= #BullshitJobs
'According to a recent WSJ report, even fresh MBA graduates from top US schools—including Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton—are struggling to find jobs.
The report highlights that 23% of Harvard Business School’s 2024 MBA graduates remained unemployed three months after graduation. This number was just 10% in 2022 and 20% in 2023, indicating a growing trend.'
MBA grads are struggling to find work,
https://unusualwhales.com/news/mba-grads-are-struggling-to-find-work
“Two #BayArea #tech giants announce huge layoffs at almost exact same moment: #SanFrancisco design #software company #Autodesk is slashing about 1,350 workers, while #PaloAlto mainstay #HP is expanding its ongoing cuts by up to 2,000 people”
“…the executive joins a trend of shedding staff to reallocate resources toward #AI”
Late with this article, still think this isn’t a co-ordinated program?
#SFGate / #WhiteCollar / #Layoffs / #Sackings / #HP / #AutoDesk <https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/autodesk-hp-layoffs-same-time-20192995.php>
“The financing #platform #Klarna announced last summer it was laying off about 2,000 workers – half of its #workforce – as a result of its new #AI #CustomerService system that did their work instead.”
#WhiteCollar / #corporate / #sacking <https://theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/02/ai-layoffs-trump-irs>
“Salesforce will not hire any more #engineers this year after investment in AI #coding tools provided a 30 percent #productivity boost, its CEO claimed as he sought to charm #investors.
Speaking as the #CRM giant announced *underwhelming #Q4Results*, #MarcBenioff told analysts on an earnings call that #Salesforce was seeing "tremendous #efficiency" as a result of spending on #AI agents and coding tools.”
Get a share holder boost spruiking AI.
#Whitecollar / #Technology / #AI / #HireFreeze <https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/salesforce_misses_revenue_guidance/>
Since 2022 the companies that profit from the #Internet have been shedding technical staff in the belief of the power of #AI to replace their #workforce. What are they replacing or redirecting this capacity with?
“Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web: The #MozillaFoundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, #TechCrunch reports.
While Mozilla is best known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation — the parent of the #MozillaCorporation — describes itself as standing up “for the health of the internet.” With its advocacy and global programs divisions gone, its impact may be lessened going forward.
“Fighting for a free and open internet will always be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it,” #BrandonBorrman, the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said in an email to The Verge. Borrman declined to confirm exactly how many people were laid off, but said it was about “30% of the current team.”
This is Mozilla’s second round of layoffs this year. In February, the Mozilla Corporation laid off around 60 workers said it would be making a “strategic correction” that would involve involve cutting back its work on a Mastodon instance. Mozilla shut down its virtual 3D platform and refocused its efforts on #Firefox and #AI. The Mozilla Foundation had around 120 employees before this more recent round of layoffs, according to TechCrunch.
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“Navigating this topsy-turvy, distracting time requires laser focus — and sometimes saying goodbye to the excellent work that has gotten us this far because it won’t get us to the next peak,” wrote Syed, who previously worked as the chief executive of The Markup, an investigative news site. “Lofty goals demand hard choices.”
#WhiteCollar / #CorporateGreed <https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs>
“#Mozilla is made up of several organizations, one of which is the #MozillaCorporation, which develops Firefox and other technologies, and another is its nonprofit and tax-exempt #MozillaFoundation, which oversees Mozilla’s corporate governance structure and sets the browser maker’s policies. Much of Mozilla’s work focused on advocating for #privacy, #inclusion, and #decentralization of #technologies, and “to create #safer, more #transparent online experiences for #everyone,” which ultimately benefit the #browser maker and its #users.
Announcing the layoffs in an email to all employees on October 30, the Mozilla Foundation’s executive director #NabihaSyed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — #Advocacy and #GlobalPrograms — are “no longer a part of our structure.””
There you go. One side of Mozilla builds the tools of the Internet, the other does… I can’t for the life of me see what. It’s the #MozillaFoundation who cant engineer the tools that are doing “deals” with others to make things safer.
The power to make change for the better of the Internet is being moved from direct impact, ie: basic technology and applied applications TO soft corporate influence through manifestos, papers, jobs and pay for influencers and collaborations with third parties…
I know what is more effective. Basic engineering and applied products because it scales.
#WhiteCollar / #Layoffs / #CorporatePolicy <https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/>
The technology white collar eradication continues. Since 2022 where #TCI Fundie #ChristopherHohn* decided he needed a pay rise, one way was to demand #google loose it’s “over paid” #Engineers. Big Tech has followed by stripping workers and looking at #AI as a replacement,
It’s 2025 and…
“Meta's plan to erase 5% of workforce starts today”
<https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/meta_to_toss_5_of/>
VS
“Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses (Meta/Facebook)”
#WhiteCollar / #tech / #tehc / #pay / #conditions <https://theregister.com/2025/02/22/meta_pumps_executive_bonuses/>
'White Collar: Renaissance': Matt Bomer's ‘White Collar’ Reboot Series Gets a Title!! #WhiteCollarRenaissance, #Hulu, #MattBomer, #WhiteCollar
The ‘white collar’ #recession is pummeling office workers
#Whitecollar workers facing deepest hiring slump in decade, with 1/4 #US #job losses last year hitting professional workers. 2024 Vanguard report shows hiring for employees earning over $96,000 fell to lowest since 2014. Downturn severe for job seekers 40% of applicants failed to secure single #interview in 2024, according to survey of 2000 by American Staffing Association & The Harris Poll.
https://fortune.com/2025/02/17/white-collar-recession-pummeling-office-workers-ending/
https://archive.ph/V66r4
Eine #Umfrage zur #Sozialstruktur im #Fediverse und auf #Mastodon:
Duschst Du vor der Arbeit oder nach der Arbeit?
#Sozialforschung #Klassismus #SozialeSpaltung #BlueCollar #WhiteCollar #Handwerk #Handarbeit #Universität #Soziokultur #Sozialpolitik #Arbeitsmarkt #Zusammenhalt #NeuHier #Neoliberalismus #Dienstleistungsgesellschaft #Sorgearbeit #Kulturpolitik #Duschen #Hygiene #Arbeit #Oberschicht #Mittelschicht #Unterschicht
“The #tech layoff wave continued through 2024. Following significant #workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, 2024 saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 542 companies, according to independent #layoffs tracker #LayoffsFyi. Large companies like #Tesla, #Amazon, #Google, #TikTok, #Snap, and #Microsoft conducted sizable layoffs in 2024, while smaller-sized #startups also experienced cuts, and in some cases, shut down operations altogether.”
#TechWeenie / #WhiteCollar <https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/tech-layoffs-2024-list/>
“Meta lays off staff at WhatsApp and Instagram to align with ‘strategic goals’”
#TechWeenie #Zuckerberg / #WhiteCollar / #WhatsApp / #Instagram / #sacking <https://apnews.com/article/meta-layoffs-whatsapp-instagram-4af727c7fb75f89bc50c84284fef2fee>
@cjd yikes...
No wounder that people say "#H1B is the #USA's #WhiteCollar version of #WageSlavery like the #UAE and it's neighbours hire for #Cinstruction"!
@baybedoll
I hear there’s a new season of #WhiteCollar in the works. Neal Caffrey needs to see this.
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