Optional@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agoCisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AIwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: business@lemmy.worldhardware@lemmy.world
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minus-squarefine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cclinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThe whole article is a shit show. When did it become trendy to use abbreviations like “reorg” and “biz”. I work in corporate finance, I’ve never heard someone talk like that.
minus-squareFirstCirclelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months ago The redundancies follow declining revenues and shrinking profits. “Redundancies” is apparently now a noun that refers to employees being laid off. Intel announced it was eliminating 16,000 people – to curb capital expenses. Headcount is now a physical asset I guess. Corps must be taking depreciation expenses on employees now in addition to salary expenses. Ka-ching! After my first browse of the article I was wondering if it had been spewed out by some of the crappy AI that Cisco is so keen on.
The whole article is a shit show. When did it become trendy to use abbreviations like “reorg” and “biz”. I work in corporate finance, I’ve never heard someone talk like that.
“Redundancies” is apparently now a noun that refers to employees being laid off.
Headcount is now a physical asset I guess. Corps must be taking depreciation expenses on employees now in addition to salary expenses. Ka-ching!
After my first browse of the article I was wondering if it had been spewed out by some of the crappy AI that Cisco is so keen on.