IBM looks beyond short-term AI gains, tripling entry-level hiring

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IBM looks beyond short-term AI gains, tripling entry-level hiring (www.cio.com)

The firings were never about AI. It was about getting rid of people they should have never hired in the first place. AI was just the excuse.

Archive: https://archive.today/w69EN

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>In a time when companies are reducing headcounts in favor of adopting AI tools, IBM is doing something completely different: The tech giant is tripling its entry level hiring, not easing up on it or indiscriminately slashing jobs. This initiative, according to SVP and chief human resources officer Nickle LaMoreaux, not only includes hiring software developers, who are considered by some to be obsolete, outperformed by advancing AI coding tools, but adding juniors in other roles that AI could capably handle, such as those in HR and in employee and customer support roles. “The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry level hiring in this environment,” LaMoreaux said at a recent conference. “Not [the companies] that held the status quo or reduced it.”

The firings were never about AI. It was about getting rid of people they should have never hired in the first place. AI was just the excuse. Archive: https://archive.today/w69EN From the post: >>In a time when companies are reducing headcounts in favor of adopting AI tools, IBM is doing something completely different: The tech giant is tripling its entry level hiring, not easing up on it or indiscriminately slashing jobs. This initiative, according to SVP and chief human resources officer Nickle LaMoreaux, not only includes hiring software developers, who are considered by some to be obsolete, outperformed by advancing AI coding tools, but adding juniors in other roles that AI could capably handle, such as those in HR and in employee and customer support roles. “The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry level hiring in this environment,” LaMoreaux said at a recent conference. “Not [the companies] that held the status quo or reduced it.”

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This is probably smart. AI requires a human to feed it a prompt or instruction.

Manpower and AI agents are two different forms of workforce.

If you think of manpower as a resource, its a cheap investment that can be leverage over time.

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