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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by yamtaddle on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:21PM (#34698880)
Anyone non-tech I know would just call it "labor", as opposed to management. The people who mostly do the things that make the stuff, rather than mostly telling others to do the things to make the stuff.

Again, people'd just say "labor" in other contexts. Or maybe "workers". I'm not sure where "IC" came from but I've never seen it outside of tech, and that, mostly online.

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by Nevermark on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:16AM (#34705149)
I think “labor” is associated with repetitive or at least well characterized jobs

In tech, any two given workers are much less likely to be doing the same thing. So they are clearly not just laboring but contributing at some creative and self-management level as well

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