SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of AI

(theregister.com)

9 points | by klhs 3 hours ago ago

7 comments

  • klhs 3 hours ago ago

    As the article says: "One in ten employees at SUSE are facing the chop [...]".

    It would be interesting to know if the reason is truly automation. Apparently the equity firm owning Suse considered selling it off recently, see last paragraph.

  • sixtyj 3 hours ago ago

    Imho 10% is normal… If you are a corporation, you employ a lot of redundant people. So sometimes you need to make let lose weak ones.

    Pareto not applied here btw

    • klhs 41 minutes ago ago

      Compared to the future AI-worker we might all turn out to be weak. :)

  • dandaditya 3 hours ago ago

    Is this article referring to suse Linux distro ?

    • klhs 3 hours ago ago

      SUSE finances the maintenance of the openSUSE distro afaik.

  • add-sub-mul-div 3 hours ago ago

    Invention's primary purpose is to replace human labor. It's explicitly stated by first party as reason for reduction of labor. Comments: "It would be interesting to learn if this has anything to do with AI."

    • klhs 6 minutes ago ago

      You could just reply to me directly, you know. I don't doubt that AI is able to fill some roles already but a company can obviously have other reasons to downsize, and maybe they just think "'twas 'cause of AI" sounds better. Then again, maybe I'm just coping, as the kids say.