Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI - Judges classify AI adoption as a controllable business strategy rather than an unavoidable disruption, shielding employees from automation-driven layoffs
Step 1: give unrealistic KPI, cited performance increase due to AI
Step 2: put employee into PIP
Step 3: fire employee due to performance
Step 4: do stock buyback because you have extra budget from firing employees
Step 1: give unrealistic KPI, cited performance increase due to AI Step 2: put employee into PIP Step 3: fire employee due to performance Step 4: do stock buyback because you have extra budget from firing employees
Step 5: hire employee back as part of expansion plan and because AI did it poorly.
Hire employees back as contractors instead, because those people are desperate.
True story. Seen it happen so many times
I’m not sure about step 4. I mean, China is pretty strict with those kinds of things.