Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.
They laid off 9000 people in the US a few months ago
2025: IBM lays off 16-20k tenured employees.
Early 2026: “IBM emerges as a global leader (in asshole-tier cost savings), championing early career development by tripling their number of hired entry-level employees.”Fuck you, IBM.
Ultately, it was aplan to fire expensive old timers and hire Gen Z replacements at 1/3rd the sallary.
A whopping 3% of their workforce.
Hey, and they can get new grads much cheaper than the 3% they fired! Win win!
Pretty sure they’re hiring to display “growth” and please the shareholders. In another year or so, one of the execs looking to meet KPIs to qualify for their outrageous pay package will “cut costs” by laying off everyone they hired the previous year 😮💨
The depiction isn’t so rosy for people against the use of AI. Yes, entry level jobs are reopening, but they’re looking for people with AI skills, that show initiative and comfort with it.
So they’re doubling down and ignoring the root of the problems that they’ve found? Classic.
What the next cheaper thing we can do until we can actually fire them all and replace them with machines?
Entry level of course!
All juniors are hourly and under 30 hours a week
By that, they they mean that they are adding responsibilities and reducing pay.
Decent pay and benefits or just minimal pay and no benefits?
