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Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by iamflimflam1 on Saturday December 30, 2023 @06:21AM (#38814373)
Scratch the surface of a lot of companies and you’ll find that tech is a surprisingly small part of what goes on.
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Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by shermantanktop on Saturday December 30, 2023 @09:09AM (#38815379)
And that tech problems are an even smaller part of the important problems that the company needs to solve.

And that within those tech problems, human factors (getting people to agree, to do all the work rather than just the fun part, to deliver a sensible level of quality) dominate the problem, rather than actual tech issues.

And within THAT subset, some of those tech problems can be sidestepped by a bit of clever decision making.

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