Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over

As we enter this era of far more qualified candidates than jobs, HR will die eventually the equivalent of index funds is for hiring. Just as most money managers didn't beat the market and lost out to Bogle's low-cost index funds, people will figure out that HR doesn't do any better than any other random criteria for hiring and firing employees, since most of the applicants for most jobs will be able to do the job sufficiently well. Probably the answer is some sort of AI, but I bet you could do just as well rolling dice.

If most of us are honestly with ourselves, we'd realize the marginal return on difficult hiring decisions is extremely small.

As for the CYA aspect of HR, an AI can definitely do that cheaper and more callously.

It's hard for me to not notice that the new C-level marching orders this year are that "measurement" jobs is actually what AI is killing (managers, HR, data, etc), and that seems to be an about face from IC-work being dead after the data is pretty clearly showing the opposite.

Do we not need HR and managers, or are those just more popular roles to cut and the impact takes longer to show up?

> The report also said that Human Resources employees at Uber, who had previously been cleared to work from home, are being asked to return to the office to comply with a three-day-a-week rule that took effect last June.

I feel this is direction much tech companies will take.

Wonder how many of them got hired as a response to all the Travis Kalanick-era notoriety

What's the only thing worse than 1 HR Rep?

Looks like it's a good time for Uber employees to start discussing unionization.

Hard to imagine a better HR department than non-humans...

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