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Layoffs in an anticipated recession this year could be made by software programs. Some experts worry the technology could miss nuances.
www.usatoday.com
Don’t blame your boss if you get laid off in a
recession this year.
Blame Big Data.
A whopping 98% of human resources leaders say they’ll rely at least partly on software programs, or algorithms, to decide whom to cut if they have to conduct layoffs in an anticipated recession in 2023, according to a recent survey by Capterra, which helps small businesses choose software.
That’s up from just 2% of large companies that turned to Big Data in the
Great Recession of 2007-09, according to Capterra, a unit of tech research giant Gartner. In November, Capterra surveyed 300 human resources managers at mostly larger firms as well as some small to mid-size businesses.
“Over the past 15 years, the market for HR software has exploded,” says Brian Westfall, Capterra’s principal HR analyst. Company officials “are relying on the systems…to make a ton of decisions and that will extend into the layoff decisions they make.”
Tech companies such as
Amazon, Facebook parent company
Meta and
Twitter likely already have relied heavily on the software as they laid off tens of thousands of employees – a total of about 192,000, according to
layoffs.fyi – in 2022 and early 2023, Westfall says. Last week,
Microsoft announced 10,000 job cuts and
Google, 12,000.