Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/26/business/block-layoffs-ai-jack-dorsey

The cuts come as AI has reshaped jobs across the tech sector and is raising concerns about the future of the job market. Companies like Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Verizon have all made sweeping cuts in the last year tangentially related to AI.
“A significantly smaller team, using the tools we’re building, can do more and do it better. And intelligence tool capabilities are compounding faster every week,” Dorsey wrote.

@ez
Let’s revisit your comments March 1 2027.

Let’s check-

Finance
HR
Call Centers

@ea Spoken like someone who got their AI expertise from watching Star Trek. It can't so any of that sh1t and won't be able to for decades.

AI is being pushed onto every laptop and smart device for a blunt, simple reason: it protects the corporation, not the worker. Once Copilot is installed, every email you write, every document you create, every decision you explain, and every pattern in how you communicate becomes part of a permanent, machine‑indexed memory the company owns. That means your experience, your tone, your problem‑solving approach, and your institutional knowledge are no longer yours; they’re captured, standardized, and reusable without you. The business gains continuity, consistency, and resilience, while the individual loses the leverage that used to come from being the only one who knew how things worked. AI strengthens the corporation by absorbing the value workers create, and in doing so, it makes those same workers far easier to replace.

The layoffs will be blamed on AI, but the workers will actually just be getting replaced in India, eastern Europe, etc.

@b5 You don't understand how mobility works do you?

Most companies aren't laying off due to AI. It's just an excuse to cover up declining revenue, over hiring, getting rid of problematic employees, etc.

The $20M is nothing when you think about what they’re willing to throw away on a bad deal

Well AI is not a magic tool, you need a brain to prompt it. Stankey and his minions cannot use it to his advantage because the people that would have been the brain for it, are all gone. So yes, AI could have eliminated tons of people more, but Stankey is too d-mb, and too late to metabolize the advantage.

I am in mobility and we carry the company.

Hmmm - are you really asking why a CEO with a long track record of making bad financial decisions would make a bad financial decision?

Par for the course.

@aj until it becomes self-aware and unionizes

The people downvoting this must love playing pickleball during work hours.

AI works more than 5x8.

We are re-engineering our work force.

Stankey has got build something to hold his ego. The Dallas complex was not large enough.

playground is going to be used to attract top tier talent

How did you keep from laughing when you typed that?

It is to house the only humans that will be working at T in 3 years!

L3 here. We was told we was safe.

We will still need employees. Just a lot leas if them. Dont be fooled, this new playground is going to be used to attract top tier talent in the area they need employees- software, AI, corporate admin functions.
Short-term, current employees will use it but long-term it will be for the very few needed to run the company.
A lot of employees will be exiting the business between now and 2028 when phase 1 moves in.