> At the same time, companies are desperate for high-leverage hires. ClickUp, let go 22% of their workers, and introduced new $1M salary bands to attract agentic-native humans.
I'm sorry, but what does "agentic-native" even mean? Is the author assuming that for some people the ability to fluently manipulate AI agents is inborn behavior instead of learned. It sounds like a HR person writing a job listing that demands five years of experience with a framework that came out last week.
Furthermore, wouldn't it have been cheaper to retain and retrain existing employees? Laying off people to try to hire people who already learned AI elsewhere throws away existing institutional knowledge, seems like bad PR to me, and is immediately more expensive if you're introducing seven-figure salary bands to attract "fresh" talent instead of keeping the people you already have on the payroll.
Also, why should I even consider working for a company that laid people off to chase a trend. What's to stop them from throwing me under a bus when the next trend comes along?
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 5.6 ms ] threadI'm sorry, but what does "agentic-native" even mean? Is the author assuming that for some people the ability to fluently manipulate AI agents is inborn behavior instead of learned. It sounds like a HR person writing a job listing that demands five years of experience with a framework that came out last week.
Furthermore, wouldn't it have been cheaper to retain and retrain existing employees? Laying off people to try to hire people who already learned AI elsewhere throws away existing institutional knowledge, seems like bad PR to me, and is immediately more expensive if you're introducing seven-figure salary bands to attract "fresh" talent instead of keeping the people you already have on the payroll.
Also, why should I even consider working for a company that laid people off to chase a trend. What's to stop them from throwing me under a bus when the next trend comes along?