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Worth Reading – Top 10 Biglaw Firm To Conduct ‘Massive’ Layoff, Leaving Hundreds Jobless Thanks To AI
I can see why publicly proclaiming that you’re being innovative with new technology to reduce your headcount is a better alternative to admitting your firm isn’t doing well or to publicly blaming US policy. It might not be the whole truth, though. Usually, when there are large layoffs, the truth is a questionable idea anyway. AI just created another way to stretch it. In this case, Baker McKenzie may see a path in which new technology reduces the need for 10% of its staff. They may also be using that excuse to cover up failure, too.
Either way, 700 people are out of a job, and it’s become so routine that I fear it no longer raises an eyebrow. That’s the truly scary part.
Linked: Amplify possibility
Seth has some keen insight into the way social media works, and I think these paragraphs are spot on, and also something we, as users of social media, need to remind ourselves of daily:
“And so the social networks created a game, a game in which you ‘win’ by being notorious, outrageous or, as they coined the phrase, “authentic.” The whole world is watching, if you’re willing to put on a show.
That’s not how the world actually works. The successful people in your community or your industry (please substitute ‘happy’ for successful in that sentence) don’t act the way the influencers on Twitter, YouTube or Facebook do. That’s all invented, amplified stagecraft, it’s not the actual human condition.”
Linked – EDiscovery, Lean Manufacturing and Nashville Hot Chicken – Part One
Nodding in agreement – “All too often this is exactly how eDiscovery gets off track. There’s a phone call between the parties that outlines general expectations – or no phone call at all. Maybe the parties agree to a general stipulation, or just agree to not talk about it. Later, usually a lot later, the…
Linked – Kansas City Building a New Billion-Dollar Terminal
I like Kansas City, I’ve had a few good trips there, and met some great people. The airport though, well let me tell you a story. The last time I was there for work, I got to the airport after checking out of my hotel thinking I’d grab lunch before my flight home. This was…
