The IBM boss plans to slash the computer giant’s administrative staff, given the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies to perform such tasks.
The manager plans, therefore, to freeze hiring in this department, which represents a fraction of the approximately 260,000 employees of the American group. “There is no general hiatus in hiring,” an IBM spokesman said on Tuesday.
social plan
“IBM has a very careful recruitment policy, focused on positions that generate income. We are very selective when it comes to positions that do not directly relate to our customers or technology. We have thousands of positions to fill right now,” he added.
Like many tech companies, IBM implemented a social plan this winter. The group is expected to lay off 5,000 employees in total, according to Bloomberg, but it also hired 7,000 people in the first quarter.
Generative AI pioneer OpenAI has demonstrated with its ChatGPT interface and other tools that these new technologies are capable of writing emails, creating websites, generating lines of code, and generally performing many repetitive tasks.
In March, a Goldman Sachs study claimed that some 300 million jobs could be replaced by IT automation and AI.
Source: BFM TV
