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Visier examined data covering 2.4 million employees at 142 companies around the world. In an analysis shared exclusively with Axios, it found about 5.3% of laid-off employees end up being rehired by their former employer. While that rate has been relatively stable since 2018, it has ticked up, Derler says. It's hard to tell what is driving the recent uptick, since the data is backward looking, she notes. Still, rehiring indicates a "larger planning problem" for executives. submitted by /u/axios [link] [comments]

I literally do not understand how a future with AI in the USA could possibly ever work. Say that AI is so incredibly effective and well developed in two years that it eliminates 50% of all work that we have to do. Okay? What in the actual fuck are the white collar employees, just specifically for example, supposed to do? What exactly are these people going to spend their time doing now that most of their work is completely eliminated? Do we lay off half of the white collar workers in the USA and they just become homeless and starve to death? And I keep seeing this really stupid, yes very stupid, comment that "they'll just have to learn how to do something else!" Okay, how does a 51-year-old woman who has done clerical work for most of her life with no college degree swap to something like ...