Can confirm. The average tech people I worked with there skewed towards not exactly cool, well-rounded, solidarity-aware, socially-responsible (except performatively) individuals. Didn't meet anyone technical there I'd ever want to hang out with, but I must've arrived 10 years too late.
Honestly, the article title is a bit of clickbait. The main complaint is about people on medical leave being disadvantaged by the token usage as performance metric that was introduced.
AI enables employers to make cases for "low performance" against those who take medical leave or "excessive" leave.
Once they're identified AI can generate a report they don't send enough email, talk enough at meetings, type enough keystrokes etc. to give metrics to a preordained conclusion.
Look long and hard enough and everyone will far short of cherry picked metrics in some way.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 23.8 ms ] threadAI enables employers to make cases for "low performance" against those who take medical leave or "excessive" leave.
Once they're identified AI can generate a report they don't send enough email, talk enough at meetings, type enough keystrokes etc. to give metrics to a preordained conclusion.
Look long and hard enough and everyone will far short of cherry picked metrics in some way.